Clarion 1969-11-14 Vol 45 No 11

Vol. XLV—No. 11 Bethel College, St. Paul Minn.
11111166— I
Friday, November 14, 1969
S. U. I. nears reality as new trend in learning
Gene Cotton, touring the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, will
present Nik Dag couples with a folk concert tonight at 8 p.m.
Nov.17-21 brings
missions guests
World Missions Week, Novem-ber
17 - 21, brings missionaries
from many foreign fields to our
campus for a time of sharing,
praying, laughing, and crying to-gether.
Missionaries are everywhere —
in the coffee shop, in the cafe-teria,
in the lounges of the dorms
and manors, in the classroom, in
formal speaking engagements and
in informal bull sessions. These
Baptist Conference representa-tives
have come to give a part of
themselves to help each of us
find God's leading and to en-courage
us in the Lord's work
from around the world.
The chapel speakers for this
week of missions emphasis come
from the fields of the Philippines,
Japan, Ethiopia, the Virgin Islands
and Brazil. The Clifford Bubars,
Virgin Islands; the William Mur-rays,
Ethiopia; the Roy Nelsons,
Philippine Islands; the Glenn Og-rens,
Brazil; and the Glen Swan-sons
from Japan have taken time
from their deputation work across
the country to join us for this
week.
Missionary candidates for ap-pointment,
Rev. and Mrs. Fred
Lund, will also be with us and
Rev. Lund will be speaking in
the Friday chapel hour. Rev. Lund,
a 1969 graduate of the Bethel
Seminary and a 1966 college grad-uate,
served as the debate coach
Getting this year's Nik Dag off
to a start will be Gene Cotton,
who comes to us from a recent
tour in Nashville, Tennessee and
several cities in Indiana. At 8
for the college in 1967-68. His
wife, Sharon, did considerable de-bate
and forensic work during her
college years at Bethel and has
since been teaching in an ele-mentary
school in Bloomington.
Their appointment will be made
at the December Foreign Board
meeting. According to Dr. Clar-ence
Bass, member of the Foreign
Board, it is hopeful that a year
from now the Lunds will be on
the field and in language train-ing.
The recent closing of the Assam,
India, field h a s returned Rev.
George Johnson to the States.
Presently Rev. Johnson is working
on his Master of Theology Degree
at the 'Bethel Seminary. He will
also be a Missions Week guest.
Rev. Vernon Anderson, recently
returned from Brazil, is also do-ing
some work at the seminary and
will be joining in this week's ac-tivities.
Mrs. Anderson is present-ly
a student in the college.
During the latter part of the
week former missionary to Japan,
Rev. Dale Bjork will be be on
campus. Rev. Bjork is presently
serving as the Assistant Secretary
of the Foreign Mission Board.
All of these people will be
available for discussion and fel-lowship
in all areas of campus life.
These missionaries are willing and
eager to share their experiences
in their endeavor to take Christ
to the world.
p.m. this evening in the fieldhouse,
he will be presenting a folk con-cert.
Cotton began his professional
. folk-singing career with a folk
SUI, a response to the closing
of Bethel Center in the fall of
1968, crossed one of its major
hurdles in realizing the imple-mentation
of its proposal. The pro-gram
will be supported by the
Minnesota Baptist Conference and
Bethel College and Seminary.
What remains is the acceptance
of the proposal by the Education-group
in 1963-64, but this was
cut short by a hitch with the U.S.
Army.
Since that time, Cotton has been
busy traveling around the coun-try,
with his wife Marnie, giving
concerts in high schools, coffee
houses, and on college campuses.
In addition to his "In person con-certs,"
his third album will be
out on the market in December.
Two years ago, Cotton spent
two and a half weeks in Vietnam
entertaining our troops. When
asked what hit him the hardest
about the conditions there, he re-plied,
"I thought the whole thing
was pretty much of a mess be-cause
nobody really knows what's
going on. It's probably much
worse now, but the thing that
hit me the most were the little
children there. I could just see
my own brothers and sisters in
them. I could imagine how I would
feel if this were happening to me."
The group with which Cotton
traveled carried a program with
a spiritual emphasis. How were
they received? Cotton said, "We
were really received great! Of
course, the troops are eager for
any entertainment, but they seem-ed
to appreciate our program
much more than the average one.
We sang for most of the program
and then we would each share our
faith. The program would always
close on a spiritual note. It was
a terrific experience."
After finishing their tour in the
Minneapolis-St. Paul area, t h e
Cottons will be touring the New
England states. Then, perhaps
they will wish to head for their
home in Miami.
al Policies Committee and the fa-culty
at large. After this last
step, the program will become a
reality. This in conjunction with
the acceptance of the Crisis Colo-ny
program indicates a movement
towards a new trend in education
by the college.
It answers a need within the
traditional educational system to
supplement the classroom learn-ing
experience. "People become
truly motivated when they can
apply what they have learned,"
stated Steinhaus, Instructor of
Sociology and a member of the
planning committee. "This pro-gram
provides a maximum oppor-tunity
for such motivation."
The SUI Committee has been de-veloping
a program which will
provide an educational opportu-nity
for students from all areas
of the college. The program seeks
to fulfill three goals: 1) education
(being the primary goal); 2) in-volvement
in spiritual witness in
the community; 3) meeting the
immediate physical needs of the
community.
In response to spiritual witnes-sing,
Steinhaus stated, "We seek
to use a nontraditional approach
to meet the spiritual needs within
the community. Through our total
lives and close personal involve-ment
with the community, we
hope to present a type of twenty-four
hour witnessing."
SUI plans to focus on the Frank-lin
Street area which is a predomi-nately
Indian population. Empha-
WASHINGTON (CPS) — Ron
Young, Project Director for the
New Mobilization to End the War
in Vietnam, was trapped by re-porters
in a crowded corner of
the tiny MOBE press room.
His eyes bloodshot from sleep-less
nights and long hours of bick-ering
with Justice Department of-ficials,
Young kept up the facade
of optimism. Richard G. Klein-dienst,
deputy attorney general,
had announced only hours earlier
that no permit would be given
for the November 15 anti-war par-ade
down Pennsylvania Ave. ex-pected
to draw hundreds of thou-sands
from throughout the coun-try.
But Young maintained, "there
will indeed be permits."
It is the basic right of Ameri-sis
will be on junior and senior
high school age people. "Roughly
50 per cent of the junior high
students in this area do not go
on to complete their senior high
education," said Steinhaus.
Present plans are to rent a
house for six student and a semi-nary
couple to reside there twen-ty-
four hours a day. During the
morning several of the Bethel fa-culty
will conduct courses with the
students in the house. Afternoon
and evening activities will include
working through the programs
and agencies which are already
in existence in the area and be-coming
closely identified with the
residents of the community. Nu-merous
opportunities will be pro-*
vided for students and faculty to
discuss pertinent issues which will
be encountered.
Applicants to the program will
be screened by a committee which
will be looking for mature, re-sponsible,
open-minded Christian
students. Preference will be given
to sophomores and juniors with
the intent to bring back to the
campus the following year a great
deal of their experience and new
knowledge.
The Committee will consider
both the past and future of the
student as well as what he can
bring to the program itself. Since
it is a nine-month program in-cluding
30 credits interested stu-dents
should be concerned with
long range planning of their col-lege
program.
cans to demonstate, and Pennsyl-vania
Avenue is the official route
for parades in the capital. It
connects the two centers of power,
the Capitol and White House .. .
It is vital that we be able to pass
White House, for that is where
the president lives and he has the
power to end this war," Young
said.
The Justice Department denies
that right and says it will us the
"minimum force" necessary t o
keep the demonstrators off Penn-sylvania
Avenue and away from
the White House.
The difficulty with the Mobiliza-tion,
Kleindienst said, is that its
march lacks the predictable char-acter
"of an American Legion
parade," and therefore must be
continued on page 2
Folk singer Gene Cotton presents
Nik Dag weekend highlight tonight
MOBE seeks permit to march
Justice Department says, No'
Page 2
the CLARION Friday, November 14, 1969
Christ for communication
--are Bethelites hiding?
I was strolling down Mona last week swing with the birds, grooving
with the elements and generally digging the day when I spotted this
fellow who had doublecrossed me.
I socked-it-to-em in the eye. Zap. No response. He stood there
like a dummy. Undaunted, I gave it to him in the other eye. His eyes
clouded, his nose twitched with disdain, his rubbery lips formed a
self-righteous smirk.
He turned on his heel and saundered off convinced that he had
suppressed his baser instincts by "turning the other cheek" as Christ has
instructed his followers to do. I stood, mouth agape, my feelings of
frustration and alienation conpounded.
Just the other day I again was walking on Arona, this time heading
home to eat some supper before hurrying to the Senate meeting. Again
I spotted John Doe, and quickly crossed the street to confront him.
The air cracked with the impact of my fist against his jaw. His
direct gaze countered my antagonistic stare, and he stood, slightly be-mused,
dabbing at the blood running from the side of his mouth with
a handkerchief.
"Why did you do that?" John queried. I, taken aback by his seem-ing
willingness to communicate after absorbing such a blow, countered,
"I felt like it. I don't like how you are treating me or my friends.
I knew your attitudes and behavior weren't changing. I wanted to strike
out at you."
"What I am really curious to know," I continued, "is why you de-cided
to stay and confront me this time instead of smugly walking
away contemplating your navel and your morality as you did before."
"Let's go to the Flamburger," John replied. "I'll buy you a cup of
coffee and we can talk inside where it's warmer."
"You see," John started, "last week I felt that to have a Christo-centric
view of life I had to stoically suppress any negative emotion I
had towards you, remembering that the Lord forgave sinners because
they didn't know what they were doing. I felt I had to prove my worth
as a disciplined Christian by letting you strike out at me without
striking back."
"But you really were hurting our relationship a great deal by that
attitude," I replied. "More than if you would have physically struck
back. I felt that although you thought you were demonstrating your
Christianity and self-righteousness, you were actually falsely and per-functorily
fulfilling your obligation to the Christ ethic that you didn't
care for me as a person at all by your unwillingness to sit down and
talk with me with an open and receptive mind to try and understand
how I felt."
"True," John agreed. "I was copping out as a Christian. I was trying
to play the part of God by acting in a "Christian" manner (i.e. turning
the other cheek); but actually, my pious perversion of Christ's doctrine,
through my role-playing, caused me to overlook Christ's emphasis on
having the proper motivation for our actions."
"I realize now," John continued, "that actions, no matter how pious
they appear to people around me, are sheerest hypocrisy if I am working
to further my own glory and interests instead of Christs."
"That's why your original behavior confused and frustrated me so
terribly," I countered. "It seems to me that Christ did not come into
the world for the glory of Christ; but rather for people. Christ set an
example for us in direct communication with God and with other
people. The Holy Spirit rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom
when Christ gave up the ghost, a symbolic action to break down the
barriers that institutions and rituals had formed to prevent direct com-munication
from man to God and man to man."
"So my sense of urgency and emotional reaction to your personality
and ideas and your false piety, hypocrisy, and defenses blocked mean-ingful
communication," I surmised.
"I guess you're right," John conceded. "Christ came to establish
communication. We should take an open and honest look at ourselves
and our relations to other people—exercise understanding, tolerance,
and receptiveness if we are to have spiritual concerns instead of being
guided by financial or materialistic conditions or political power plays."
"It makes me wonder," I speculated. "If the main emphasis of
Bethel is a Christocentric view of life, why is everybody hiding from
each other?"
Otiffiti
The primary goal is the process, not the end product.
Did you realize that bad breath is damaging to the psyche?
Concensus is a fickle woman, everyone claims her and no one is
quite sure how she develops.
You can give a person access to knowledge, but you can't make
him think.
Expose: S. Claus, who espouses and practices a philosophy of
free distribution of goods, is a paid communist agent that is
infiltrating American society and corrupting our youth.
Hooray for the unpredictability of the human race.
May God prevent the social scientists from controlling all the
variables.
I sincerely hope that the breakdown of structures of authority
in American society today does not reflect itself in an attitude
of disrespect for garbage trucks; since the amount of physical
and verbal garbage in American society increases in leaps and
bounds every year.
UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY
fax
Marijuana
by Tom Ford
With recent estimates of first-time users ranging from Justice De-partment
estimates of 12 million to U.S. Public Health Service figures
of 20 million, it is quite apparent that maijuana has penetrated our
society quite deeply.
The widespread use of marijuana has brought into focus the
inadequate legal structure that has evolved around it. Most statutes
dealing with marijuana are based upon the misconception that marijua-na
is a narcotic — which research has adequately disproven.
Marijuana is a hallucogen that produces neither addiction nor
tolerance. Marijuana is not physically habit forming and it does not
naturally lead to stronger drugs.
It does however, 'lead to psychological' dependence for some users
and provides an escapist solution to real problems. Dr. James Goddard,
in an article for Life magazine, outlined six of the major questions that
must be answered by government sponsored research. They are:
"1. Does long term usage of marijuana have harmful effects?
2. Does it affect the reproductive processes?
3. What type of treatment will be most effective in rehabilitating
chronic users?
4. What conditions favor continuation of marijuana use as opposed
to moving to hard drugs?
5. What kinds of educational approaches are most effective in re-ducing
misuse?
6. Does marijuana affect human chromosomes?"
Dr. Goddard maintains that within the next three years, sufficient
data should be assembled to answer these questions.
In the meantime, he suggests, federal statutes should be updated
to account for our present understanding of the situation. However,
Dr. Goddard opposes legalizing the use of marijuana until after the
results of research are known.
A more correct approach would include reducing possession from a
felony to a misdemeanor which would give the courts a great deal of
leeway when handling offenders. Strict penalties for pushers should,
however, be maintained.
Dr. Goddard's opposition to legalizing marijuana is based on the
potential harm it may have that we have yet to discover or disprove.
Another factor is marijuana's effects on "adolescents who have not
learned to cope with the problems of daily life. . . "
Focusing upon the inconsistencies between the use of alcohol and
tobacco, and the prohibition of marijuana, Dr. Goddard states, "If
alcohol and tobacco were not already legal, we might very well decide
not to legalize them — knowing what we now know."
He closes his arguments against legalizing with the following
statement: "If it turns out to be quite harmful — a distinct possibility
— we will have introduced yet another public-health hazard that for
social and economic reasons might become impossible to dislodge."
Next week this column will feature Dr. Margaret Mead's arguments
for legalizing marijuana.
Tutorial system coming shortly
At the senate meeting this week, ceived by members of the Health
senators received a written re- Service, Dean Muck, faculty ad-port
from Sid Veenstra who is visor for the senate, stated that
presently working on structuring the Health Service staff, Dr. Bur-a
tutorial system. ton in particular, was more than
The report stated that Veenstra competent medically though he did
had been working with Bragg and not always supply the psychologi-had
acquired a copy of the Dean's cal reassurance that students
List. Present plans are to have sometimes needed and was hesi-interested
students indicate i n tant to recommend more expen-which
academic area they would sive medical procdures that were
like to tutor. Veenstra also re- not absolutely necesasry.
ported that they are looking for The senate also elected a stu-a
name for the program. dent representative to accompany
Senators discussed the problem Dave Shupe to the December meet-of
lack of students' confidence in ing of the Board of Education
the Health Service. Although sev- which will be held in Waukegan,
eral senators stated incidents from Illinois December 3-4. Rick Berg-personal
experience of dissatisfac- ren was chosen to go, with Tom
tion with the care they had re- Ford as alternate.
MOBE marches
continued from page 1
limited by the government. The
limiting of free assembly and dis-sent
is clearly unconstitutional and
certainly cannot be the tactic of
a free-world government, MOBE
spokesmen maintained.
Young, pressed and pressed a-gain
by reporters, explained, "We
are firmly committed to this
march, and we have faith in this
democratic government that it will
grant the necessary permit (for
one of two alternative routes pro-posed
by MOBE.) We have to go
ahead believing we have these
rights. I don't know what else to
believe. . ."
His voice trembled. And he told
reporters the march past t h e
White House may go with or with-out
a permit.
Later, talking with CPS report-ers,
Young said he realized chanc-es
are looking more gloomy for
reaching agreement with the Jus-continued
on page 6
Men will escort
An escort service is being or-ganized
by the residents of Ed-gren
dorm, according to its presi-dent,
John Larson. Under this
plan, Edgren men with cars would
provide transportation for Bethel
women with night off-campus
jobs. Pending further information,
girls needing transportation should
contact John Larson, Edgren 220,
P.O. 587.
the CLARION
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college or seminary.
Friday, November 14, 1969
the CLARION Page 3
BETHEL FORUM
Doc analyzes Clarion music coverage President's goals for performing
To the editor: music groups applied to athletics
I save my copies of the Clarion
because I dream of some day
writing a history of what I hope
may turn out to be four decades
at Bethel (D.V.). Historical per-spective
is a great antidote to
polarization based on emotional
reaction to singular experiences.
Having read the last three is-sues
of the Clarion, I decided to
explore last year's issues in the
light of the charge that the Clarion
is one-sided in its coverage of
the music groups and musical
performances. It is — but decided-ly
in favor of the department.
Here are my findings based on
hurried, but comprehensive scan-ning
of all but the last two is-sues
which undoubtedly gave cov-erage
to the music department's
contributions to commencement
activities and did include a fea-ture
article on Mr. Thomas' leave
of absence this year.
During the period from Sept-ember,
1968, to May, 1969, there
was no editorial comment regard-ing
the music department, per-forming
groups, or tastes in mu-sic.
The College Choir was fea-tured
in six news stories, includ-ing
a full-page spread on its Eu-
To the editor:
It has been very interesting to
read the letters to the editor in
the last two issues of the Clarion.
I was more interested in the mood
of the communication than what
particulars were being said.
An "educational experience"
takes place when two or more
sides can sit down and meaning-fully
relate to each other a point
of view. This relating involves
not only a speaking but also a
listening. The letters seemed to
not be following these basic ideas
behind an "educational experi-ence"
and the failure was in the
communication of their point of
views.
I once heard that true communi-cation
can only take place when
the opposing side must repeat back
the ideas expressed to the speak-er's
satisfaction. This involves un-ropean
concert tour. Most of the
stories were written by members
of the choir; none were unfavor-able.
The Women's Choir receiv-ed
coverage in two news stories;
the College Band's performances
were also featurel twice. In my
haste I may have overlooked any
mention of the Male Chorus with
which I have toured as a faculty
representative for nine years.
The senior recitals of music ma-jors
were announced in four sub-stantial
items. A story on the
career plans of one of the gradu-ating
seniors was also featured
in one of the issues. A new sacred
recording by one of the seniors
received favorable notice in the
Clarion. Forthcoming recitals by
members of the music faculty were
publicized in two issues, and an
interesting feature article was
that on the Paul Christians' mu-sical
instrument collection. A
workshop featuring Calvin Marsh
and a front page article on the
Suzanne Bloch (lutenist) convoca-tion
were a part of Clarion cov-erage.
Only two news articles featured
what I shall call recent vintage
music — one on the Avant-Garde
duo and another on the Ylvisakers
derstanding, i.e. comprehension, of
the other person's side. I believe
that this understanding was mis-sing
in most of the letters to the
editor.
These letters express in a small
way an attitude which is present
at Bethel. The lack of understand-ing
toward anyone who does not
possess the same views. Or even
the lack of caring about under-standing.
Or is it we don't know
how to care about each other —
we have never learned about car-ing
out of love. Is it we are
afraid of some kind of quanitita-tive
quality in caring for each
other? Caring involves a certain
amount of vulnerability which is
the beautiful thing about it —
the admission of one's need of
care. Admission of a weakness is
the first step in the strength of
caring.
Arne Bergstrom '70
—both playing "religious" music
s e t to contemporary idiom in
on-campus, all-school performanc-es.
There were subsequent re-views
on both that included criti-cal
comment. One other review,
generally positive, gave attention
to the New Folk who had appeared
in chapel. Among the numerous
contributions of Chuck Myrbo were
only four separate columns deal-ing
with his appreciation for the
Beatles and some rock music.
Four letters to the Clarion bal-anced
each other in twosomes.
Dr. Berglund, in a lengthy letter,
cogently stated his reaction to cer-tain
Clarion reviews and some of
his own philosophy of what con-stitutes
worthy music. A freshman
(not Myrbo), in a well-stated let-ter
of the same length, developed
a not-altogether contrary point of
view, rising to the defense of
groups like the New Folk. The
other twosome consisted of one
letter blasting the faculty for not
attending the Ylvisaker concert,
and another that defended their
right not to come and hear the
Ylvisakers.
The only notice that the Depart-ment
of History and Political Sci-e
n c e received was obliquely
through a letter to the editor
and a Myrbo column that gave
generally favorable notice to the
senior "recital" of one of its
double majors.
Recent letters to the editor im-ply
a Clarion crusade to under-mine
the music faculty and their
performing groups. In the October
24 editorial (that could stand some
professional editing, to be sure!),
the editor raised two questions
only: (1) are the musical tastes of
the department and its performing
groups representatives of those
of the average Bethel student; and
(2) does the young person who
hears and observes the choirs on
tour get a fulsome picture of the
varied student culture he may
encounter at Bethel? For the an-swers
to those two questions, look
and listen about campus. The edi-torial
did not call into question
the professional competence nor
the tremendous contribution of the
Department of Music to the cam-pus.
Unbalanced treatment? Nay!
Roy C. Dalton
Chairman of Department of
History and Political Science
To the editor:
The endorsement by President
Lundquist of the Music Department
at Bethel has caused some stimu-lation
of thought on another de-partment
within the Bethel com-munity,
that of Athletics. The
president lauded the department
of music for "In many ways the
department of Music by its very
nature is able to give visibilty to
some of Bethel's highest ideals
that otherwise are not as clearly
seen off campus." Clarion Novem-ber
7, 1969. This season in football
has also brought some visibility
to Bethel but the publicity brought
to our school is not of a positive
effect. All five of the emphases
suggested as descriptive of music
apply equally as well to Athletics
and the goals that an Athletic de-partment
in a Christian college
should have.
1. "Establishing high profession-al
standards as alone worthy of
the Lord whom we serve."
2. Disciplining life so that stu-dent
performance is marked by an
excellence in order to please Christ
and to glorify God.
3. Presenting the results of class-room
and laboratory work to God
in prayer as an offering of love
for His service.
4. Demonstrating concern about
the Christian impact of our campus
and its testimony to the world
around us.
5. Being sensitive to the feelings
of the people who love Bethel
and who by their personal sacri-fice
make possible the continua-tion
of our school.
Establishing high professional
standards, disciplining life, stu-dent
performance marked by ex-cellence
— these sound as if they
could be taken from an athletic
training handbook. A season rec-ord
of 0-9 and a three year win-ning
total of one game is some-thing
less than a positive concern
for the impact of our campus and
its testimony to the world around
us. For athletics has a great Chris-tian
impact, both on prospective
students, alumni, and other ob-servers
of Bethel.
What needs to be recognized is
that the athletic program of this
college has perhaps as much ef-fect
as the testimony of other
departments in the college. We
do not mean to disparage the
president's comments or his praise
of the music department — we
simply request a recognition of
the fact that the athletic depart-ment
has a great effect and a
great testimony and is in need of
support and some due recognition.
The Christian athlete is a unique
brand of person and in this age
when Sports takes so much of
the limelight, a half-hearted ef-fort
is seen in a negative light.
A cheer, short but to the point,
indicates the spirit necessary for
victory — "you gotta wanna." But
spirit is not the only ingredient
necessary for victory — there
must be something in back of that
spirit. If spirit or plain guts was
the sole factor then this year's
team would have had a 9-0 sea-son.
But there must be something
to substantiate that spirit — a
full program must be in force to
provide a meaning to spirit. Such
things require an investment but
an investment that will produce
results far beyond that cost. Part
of that cost includes financial as-sistance
to valuable athletes to
build a competitive program. Each
of the five goals suggested by the
president can be accomplished on-ly
if there is such an investment.
At this stage in the planning of
the new campus, such a program
should be included in the plan-ning
as a top priority item. Edu-cation
must include the total per-son
and a half-hearted effort in
one area weakens the whole.
Tom Molin '71
Keith R. Anderson '71
Larry Van Epps '71
Bill Painter '70
Letters show misunderstanding
between opposing points of view
Survey reveals representation
of Bethel by music department 'Keep it clean and constructive'
To the editor,
A survey was taken last week
in regards to the editorial of
October 24 to determine whether
the school as a whole felt that
the music department was mis-representing
Bethel.
Two hundred fifty-one replies
were returned in which a little
less than 25% said we do mis-represent
the school, but several
of these who felt we misrepresent
the school also stated that the
touring groups portray a college
of higher spiritual and moral
standards than is actually present
on campus.
About thee-fifths of those who
replied had heard the touring
groups before coming to Bethel.
Some stated that contact with
these groups had great influence
or were the direct cause of their
coming to Bethel.
Music, a recognized and accept-able
media of communication, is
also performance oriented. May I
suggest that it is the "timid book-sh
parasites" who have the abili-ty
and nerve to stand up before
audiences in chapel, churches, and
elsewhere to play and sing, often
as solists. One can't be too timid
or too bookish to do this!
As for "pop" music — Bethel
is an institution for higher learn-ing.
If our touring groups sing and
play the current popular music,
we are not representing the ideals
of higher education in the field
of music. And since the best learn-ing
is integrated learning, should
we not perform music which we
are learning about in the class-room.
We can't portray a higher
musical education to others if we
sing "pop" music and those who
support Bethel are assuming that
we come here to learn more and
continued on page 7
To The editor:
For many young Americans it
seems that badmouthin' the way
of life is rapidly replacing base-ball
as the national pastime. Why
don't they just look at the won-derful
things which are theirs
to enjoy instead of spouting off
all the time?
Soap for instance. How would
they like to live in a country with-out
soap, or where it was sliced
off an ugly chunk, wrapped in
plain brown paper and slung at
them across the counter? One
visit to the local supermarket
should show them how really great
our country is. Our patronage of
the arts and sciences is evidenced
by the young artists and chemists
we apparently employ to beauti-fully
package our soap, inscribe
it with graceful designs, as well
as to bestow on it a fragrance
which emanates throughout the
entire aisle.
Take Dove, for example, a real-ly
groovy cake of soap. With its
curvy lines it makes the cube-shaped
cakes look very square and
traditional. And all this because
some young person somewhere in
our land put heart and mind to
work on an age-old problem. After
all how, many square inches of
flat space do you have on your
body? This groovy Dove with its
concave and convex curves slips
under the armpit and over the
belly without a sign of friction.
It can be held safely and com-fortably
without the least bit of
fear of dropping it.
There are countless problems
which seem to defy solution and
some are every bit as serious as
the lack of fit between body de-sign
and soap shape. For exam-ple,
instead of wasting your energy
criticizing the country, why not
try to design a bar of soap that
can slip through the clenched
teeth of a pacifist or a policeman
and wash some of the vileness
out of their mouths? Or especially
for Bethel, a bar with a gentle
point for those whose ears are
closed to the other fellow's music,
or one with a self-destruct corner
which will leave a deposit in the
middle ear so as to clean up the
sound before it enters the brain
and defiles it.
Or, if soap engineering is not
your bag, why not put your crea-tive
and constructive touch on
some other equally serious prob-lem
in today's world instead of
just complaining about it.
Donald N. Larson
Professor of Linguistics
and Anthropology
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the CLARION Friday, November 14, 1969
Conference missionaries migrate to
ww II devastation prompts Swanson
to serve God through Japan missions
The Mie Prefecture on Honshu
Island in Japan has been the cen-ter
of missionary activity for Rev.
Glen E. Swanson who will speak
during Chapel on Thursday of
World Mssions Week at Bethel.
Born and raised in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, Swanson entered
Bethel College and Seminary and
completed three years here. In
1943 he joined the U.S. Marines
and was assigned to the Fifth
Division. The day before his divi-sion
was to leave for overseas,
Swanson was informed that he
had been selected for officers
training, and in March of 1945
received his commission. After
seeing the graves of 208 out of
240 of his fellow Marines on Iwo
Jima, and upon viewing the ruins
left by the atom bomb on Naga-saki,
Swanson felt the call of God
Rev. William Murray, on fur-lough
from missionary service in
Ethiopia, will be one of the guest
speakers during World Missions
Week at Bethel.
Murray is a native of the state
of California. He graduated from
the University of California with
a B.S. degree. After a semester
at the Bible Institute of Los An-geles,
he came to Bethel Seminary
where he received his B.D. degree.
His wife, Alice Murray was born
in Yucaipa, California and gradu-ated
from the San Bernardino
Valley Junior College. Following
that graduation she spent a year
studyiing at the Bible Institute
of Los Angeles.
The Murrays were appointed as
missionaries under the Baptist
General Conference and went to
Assam, India in November of 1951.
Due to government regulations
regarding the number of mission-aries
in India, they were rede-signated
to another field. They
began work in Ethiopia in May of
1954, working mainly in the area
of Ambo.
The Murrays have been active
on several committees of the mis-sion
field council. Their activities
have included teaching Bible in
Glen Swanson
to bring the gospel to the people
of the islands of Japan.
Discharged from Marine service
in September of 1946, the Swan-the
Dresser School at Ambo and
an evening Bible school, literacy
work among women, Bible classes
and counselling. They have also
prepared Bible study materials.
During their past term, the Mur-rays
have been involved in evan-gelism
and church planning in
Addis Ababa. Murray has served
as pastor of the English congre-gation
and as an advisor to the
Amharic church.
While on furlough in the States,
the Murray family are making
their home on the west coast
while Rev. Murray is engaged in
a deputation ministry among the
churches of the Baptist General
Conference.
sons carefully considered the pros-pect
of foreign mission serivce.
Swanson received his B.A. from
the University of Minnesota, and
in June, 1950, graduated from
Bethel Seminary with a B.D. de-gree.
In December of the same
year they sailed for Japan.
The Swansons have seen church-es
organized and buildings con-structed.
They have been involved
in tent meetings, home visitation,
hospital visitation, and weekly ser-vices
in the Minsei Tuberculosis
Hospital.
During their third term the
Swansons were active in church
planting and supervising f i v e
churches which became independ-ent.
Rev. Swanson, his wife, and
their four children are residing
here in St. Paul, Minnesota during
furlough.
William Murray
Mrs. George Johnson who is now in the Twin Cities shown
fulfilling her nursing duties at a clinic in Assam, India.
Welid Weedaoyea Wee% Scitedede
CHAPEL
Monday
Rev. Roy Nelson—Missionary to The Philippine Islands
Tuesday
Rev. Vernon Anderson—Missionary to Brazil
Rev. Clifford Bubar—Missionary to the Virgin Islands
Wednesday
Rev. Glenn Ogren—Missionary to Brazil
Rev. William Murray—Missionary to Ethiopia
Thursday
Rev. Glen Swanson—Missionary to Japan
Friday
Fred Lund—Missionary candidate awaiting appointment
PRAYER MEETINGS — 8:00-8:30 a.m.
(Student led in the Seminary Hall Chapel)
Tuesday: Rev. Clifford Bubar
Wednesday: Rev. William Murray
Thursday: Rev. Roy Nelson
Friday: Rev. Glenn Ogren
PRAYER MEETINGS — 10 p.m.
Open discussion Missionary Encounter in dorms
Monday: Rev. Clifford Bubar in Edgren
Tuesday: Rev. Roy Nelson in Hagstrom
Wednesday: Mrs. Clifford Bubar in Bodien
Mrs. Glen Swanson in Center Manor
Thursday: Rev. Swanson in the New Dorm
LUNCHEONS �� 11:30
Informal conversation in the President's Dining Room with the
Chapel speakers of the day, Tuesday—Friday
Murrays' make the mission scene in Ethiopia
Dr. Schoonmaker, foreground, shown in the process of an operation at an eye clinic for
removing cataracts in Assam, India.
Miss Helen Bergfalk shown in her work in Christian educa-tion
and literacy near the clinic in Tezpur, Assam, India. Miss
Bergfalk is the aunt of former Clarion editor Lynn Bergfalk.
Glenn Ogren
Picture taken in India illustrating the use of Gospel Recordings, which presents the Gos-pel
in 2-3,000 languages, many of which are not yet in written form.
Friday, November 14, 1969
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Bethel during World Missions Week
Clifford Bubars visit Bethel on their
furlough from the Virgin Islands
Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Bubar
are missionaries on furlough from
St. Croix, Virgin Islands. The Bu-bars
began their ministry in the
Virgin Islands in 1956. Starting
in the town of Fredriksted, with
nothing , the work has grown in-to
a strong church, a mission at
Montserat and a new work at
Christiansted.
The members of the church on
the island of St.. Croix are eager
to spread the gospel. They fully
support a national missionary fam-ily
on the nearby island of Mont-serat.
One of the new converts
has donated the property for the
Christiansted church and money
for the building is coming in
rapidly.
One of the rewarding phases
of the work is that of home Bible
studies. The Crucians are eager
to meet informally with the mis-sionaries
both individually and in
small groups.
Each summer over 100 children
come to Carib Camp to enjoy
youthful activity and Bible study
led by the Bubars. The Bubars
serve under the Home Mission
Board of the Baptist General Con-ference.
Clifford Bubar Mrs. Bubar
Roy Nelson, director of Philippine
Theological College speaks Monday
Rev. Roy K. Nelson, missionary
to the Philippine Islands, will be
the speaker in Chapel on Monday
of World Missions Week.
Nelson is a native of the state
of Washington. He attended Beth-el
College for two years and then
transferred to the University of
Washington where he earned his
B.A. degree. He took an additional
year of study to obtain his sec-ondary
teaching certificate. Upon
graduation he entered Bethel Sem-inary
where he received the B.D.
degree in 1954. Rev. Nelson pas-tored
the Maple Leaf Baptist
Church in Seattle from 1948-52,
and the First Baptist Church at
Litchfield, Minnesota from 1952-
54.
Mrs. Nelson is from Chicago
and graduated from Bethel Junior
College, and from the South Shore
Hospital School of Nursing in Chi-cago.
The Nelsons were appointed
for service in the Philippines by
the Baptist General Conference at
its annual meeting in June, 1954.
They have completed three terms
of missionary work.
Nelson has directed the Baptist
Since we have so many foreign
representatives among us, foreign
missions should not be foreign to
the Bethel campus. Gabriel Ofo-tokun,
Olakunle Kassim, Jerry
Jenfa and John Akinwale attended
various Baptist mission schools
in Nigeria before coming to the
States to attend Bethel. Ruby Fo-munyan
attended Saker Baptist
Fred Lund
Bethel College Graduate will
speak in Chapel Friday.
Roy Nelson
Theological College for the past
four years. The college is a train-ing
school for Filipino Christian
leaders in the central visays. His
responsibilities have included sup-ervision
of the college level aca-demic
program, regular class
teaching schedule, and manage-ment
of the school's experimental
College in Cameroon. Jim Liew
and Sriswood Vacharee ("Jeed")
were connected with Baptist mis-sions
in Thailand. Teresa Chung
of Hong Kong represents the Ev-angelical
Free Church mission in
her homeland. Isaias Cervantes
(Chi) comes from one of the Bap-tist
General Conference missions
in Mexico.
Besides these foreign students
there are on campus the sons and
daughters of foreign missionaries
as follows: from Assam, India:
Carol Johnson, Bette Larson and
Tim Larson; from Argentina:
Nancy Hill; from Brazil: Dan An-derson
and Mrs. Ruth Anderson;
from Japan: Marji Sorley, Lois
Bjork, Jeff and Paul Swanson,
Jim Youngquist, Jim Dillon, Sarah
Reasoner and Beth Young; from
the Philippines: Stu Chalmers and
Margaret Lindstedt; and from Af-rica:
Janice Mills, Ann and Rich-ard
Swanson.
farm project. Mrs. Nelson taught
health, English and music at the
school.
During their year of furlough
the Nelsons are living in Seattle,
Washington.
Rev. Glenn Ogren, missionary
to Brazil, South America, spent
the early years of his life in Chi-cago,
graduating from Bethel Col-lege
as well as Bethel Theological
Seminary. He also attended the
Evening School of the Moody Bible
Institute in Chicago. His wife stud-ied
at Northwestern College in
Minneapolis, and then graduated
from Hamline University School
of Nursing.
Rev. Ogren was ordained to the
ministry in August of 1960. On
November 29, 1960 Rev. and Mrs.
Ogren were appointed by t h e
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Baptist General Conference t o
serve as missionaries in Brazil.
They left the United States the
following March and spent one
year in Campinas, Brazil, learning
the Portuguese language in prep-
Mrs. Maynard Johnson presents the Gospel to the Ethio-pians
near the mission.
aration for their missionary ser-vice.
While on the field the Ogrens
have worked in the areas of Sao
Jose de Rio -Preto and Cardoso.
They were responsible for book-store
sales in towns and markets,
and spent time distributing Gos-pel
literature in various ways.
Ogren pastored a church for a
time, and then assisted in opening
a new work in Cardoso.
During their third term Ogren
taught in the seminary and Bible
institute at Sao Paulo. He was
also the director of a new course
of training. Perhaps the highlight
of the term was the writing of
programmed text books for a "stu-dy
center" type extension depart- under the direction of an instruc-ment
ministry. Study is at home, tor.
but once a week the students must The Ogrens are residing in St.
study at their designated center, Paul. Foreign students, missionary kids
abundant on Bethel's campus
Bethel grad Glenn Ogren teaches seminary in Brazil
18-19 year old vote bill defeated Page 6 the CLARION
by Cindy Rostollan
Nik Dag. What does that mean
to you?
I'll bet you imagine the inevi-table
bark of the dog, and going
to the P.O.'s to check the rules
for the 'game.' Then comes the
process of choosing the right
friend for the weekend, and all
the plans to do something unusual
and fun.
This turn-about weekend is what
we refer to as Nik Dag. But did
you know how Nik Dag came about
and how it was named as it was?
Years ago when Bethel was a
junior college, there was a time
when every November would have
a weekend called Sadie Hawkins.
Sadie Hawkins, during Lil Abner's
time was the big weekend for any
girl to go out and get her man!
It was the only time during the
year when it was "open season"
on any guy a girl wanted to try
and get for keeps.
I'm not sure if this is what
Bethel had in mind when it first
initiated Sadie Hawkins . . . may-be
it was. It could be that the
idea wasn't very successful, so
they decided to change the name,
and perhaps, the intention.
Dr. Dalton tells me the change
of the name came about because
of a very popular song that cir-culated
among the Bethel students
during 1949 and 1950. During this
time Bethel had a stronger Swe-dish
flavor and the students used
by Marjorie M. Rusche
"Rock music is the heartbeat
of hell and is being used by the
devil in these last days to gain
control over young lives."
"I speak as a divine representa-tive
of Almighty God. If you like
rock music, you're not right with
God."
Thus spoke Mr. Robert Larson
last Tues. night at a convocation
on rock music held in 106. Larson
is a professional speaker who
travels cross-country speaking to
high school assembles about rock.
He appeared at Bethel through the
invitation of President Carl Lund-quist.
He spoke twice, once to a bas-sically
faculty group and the sec-ond
time to a basically student
group. He was more high-pressur-ed
the second time, and at the end
of his presentation issued two
altar calls; one to step forward
apart with Jesus Christ and make
your heart right with God, the
other to renounce rock music as
incompatible with Christian tes-timony
and stand up and vow to
destroy those corrupting rock and
roll records.
Larson's basic points were: rock
music is an inherently evil of
music and an instrument of the
devil, rock music is affiliated with
drug, leftist, Marxist, and anarch-ist
elements in this country, you
don't hear rock music, you feel
it, (i.e. rock music is not head
music but visceral music), Jesus
Christ didn't stoop to the level
of his contemporaries in present-ing
his message, rock music em-phasizes
the humanity of Christ
when it does speak about Christ
and tries to bring him down to
the level of man, mass media has
replaced the traditional institu-tions
of society, rock music is the
major form of communication
among youth of America, rock is
forming the philosophies of young
people today and is serving as a
cultural catalyst.
Larson's presentation was ex-tremely
emotional, done in a re-vival
meeting style. He talked
extremely fast in a high-pitched
voice, set himself up as having
Friday, November 14, 1969
to sing a Swedish cong called
"Nikolina." It was then sung in
both Swedish and English, and was
such a favorite that students
changed Sadie Hawkins to the
more appropriate Nikolina's Dag
(day in Swedish). Through various
abbreviations, the name finally
got shortened to the Nik Dag that
we know today.
Trying to get the words or a
translation of the song "Nikolina,"
was a lot harder than I first antici-pated.
In talking to several Swe-dish
people around, Eric Borgeson
agreed to help me with a loose
translation.
After reading what "Nikolina"
is really about, you will find it
hard to believe that this is actually
what Nik Dag is named after.
I believe it sounds better in
Swedish, and loses much in the
translation.
To be in love, it is an awful pain,
Who ever tried it, will not dis-agree.
I was so much in love with Niko-lina,
And Nikolina, just as much in
love with me.
The song goes for seven more
verses, so I'll explain how the
rest of it reads.
The young man has just asked
Nikolina's papa for her hand, and
he just chased the young man out.
The young man then goes home
divine authority, and misrepre-sented
what he was attacking.
The music was extremely loud
and painful to listen to. Although
Larson claimed that the decible-level
was lower than that of a
Jimmy Hendrix concert, sentiment
was expressed in the audience
that they had never heard music
performed that loud at a public
concert or when they privately
played their stereo. Loundness is
a function not only of decible lev-el,
but the size and acoustics of
the room and whether the concert
is inside or outside.
It was also expressed that Lar-son
was performing the rock mu-sic
technically sloppy and was de-liberately
using poor examples of
rock. "I'm insulted. I have a better
knowledge of rock music than
that. He has his guitar turned up
extra loud to make us not like it
continued from page 2
tice Department, but that MOBE
was going to keep trying. "If we
come out and say we don't have
a chance to get a permit, then
what kind of chance do we have?"
Young said MOBE is thinking
in terms of alternatives for Sat-urday's
march, but the Justice De-partment
is pinning them in every
way possible.
Kleindienst would restrict dem-onstrators
to the mall area be-tween
the Capitol and Washington
Monument. "Mr. Kleindienst would
reduce peace members to second-class
citizens," Young challenged.
"The Justice Department is car-rying
out a policy of prohibiting
dissent against the war to fit in
with White House policy . . . You
can be sure the President is fully
aware of what is going on."
Already MOBE has more signi-ficant
modifications in its plans,
hoping to come to an agreement
with government officials. It has
offered an alternate route down
Constitution Avenue and has of-fered
to parade behind the White
House instead of in front of it. It
also has offered to allow only 40-
and writes Nikolina a letter, ask-ing
her to meet him in the grove
Saturday night. On Saturday night,
the young man goes to the grove,
and who should be waiting for
him but Nikolina's father. Niko-lina's
father chases the young man
around the grove with a club un-til
he runs to his home. That
night, the young man writes Niko-lina
again, telling her that he is
bidding her good-bye for tomor-row
he is going to find the nearest
lake and drown himself. Quickly
Nikolina answers, telling him,
"Don't be a coward and kill your-self.
You must wait until my
papa dies and then we will marry."
The song ends with the young
man saying, "Now I wait for the
old man to die, and when he
does, we will place that club on
his grave as a memory of a long
time ago."
No longer is this weekend to
search for your "intended,' but
who's to say you won't find him
or her in it? Today, the event is
more of a social time for any or
all girls to open their pocket-books
and either pay back or get
even with some special guy or
just get to know any new friend.
Have a good time during Nik
Dag and thank your lucky stars
for what the weekend could mean
and doesn't. There is a lot to be
said for some of the changes
Bethel has made in the past thirty
years!!
—that bad music he plays is pure
propaganda," expressed Chris Nel-son,
"That's not even rock, that's
The question-and-answer session
was quite animated. Larson stated
he wanted specific, logical ques-tions
dealing with rock and roll,
not expressions of opinion in op-position
to his. (Larson prefaced
his whole presentation by stating
that since he was the representa-tive
of Jesus Christ he demanded
respect, that the audience could
disagree, but did not have the pre-rogative
in any way to disrupt
or hinder anything he said. At
one point in the program he said,
"O.K., whoever it is you can stop
your snapping and leave right
now." The noise was a disruptive
radiator.) However, few people got
to finish their questions without
continued on page 7
70,000 persons to parade along
Pennsylvania Avenue instead o f
the entire mass.
But the Justice Department has
yet to budge, other than to grant
a permit for the two-day single
file march against death Nov. 13
and 14.
Its logic is ridiculous, as Young
pointed out in a press conference.
The government says people are
coming from Boston, and you know
what's going on at M.I.T. People
are coming from Madison, Wiscon-sin,
and you know what some
students did there last year. There-fore,
the march won't be peace-ful.
The government has decided
from logic that should make ev-ery
high school logic teacher in
the country shudder.
And maybe it won't be peaceful.
If the Justice Department does
not grant a permit for the march
which has been promoted f o r
months, and hundreds of thou-sands
of persons do come to pro-test
the war thinking they will be
marching down Pennsylvania Ave.,
it may take an incredible amount
of "minimum force" to stop them.
But it will be the Justice Depart-ment
who brings the war home.
TRENTON, N.J. (CPS) — Those
students who still believe change
can be accomplished working
through the political system have
suffered a set-back in the Nov. 5
elections, as referendums to lower
the voting age in two states failed.
Voters in Ohio and New Jersey
rejected their opportunities to
grant voting rights to 19 and 18-
year olds respectively in referen-dums
considered crucial tests to
indicate the probability of other
states doing the same. Had the
referendums passed, the possibili-ty
for passage of a federal Consti-amendment
on the issue also
would have been greatly improv-ed,
Youth Franchise Coalition
spokesmen had predicted.
The double failure by over 300,-
000 votes (18 per cent) in New
Jersey and about 50,000 votes (1
per cent) in Ohio seemingly would
discourage the students who cam-paigned
and canvessed for months
to win the vote. But in traditional
good-loser political style, organi-zers
of the campaigns refuse to
admit discouragement.
David DuPell, chairman of the
Voting Age Coalition (VAC) in
New Jersey, released a statement
to the press which vowed to con-tine
the fight. As a staff member
at the Trenton headquarters ex-plained,
"The resolve is there. It's
just a matter of time until we
can convince the voters of our
cause. We're not pessimistic."
But there is plenty to be pessi-mistic
about. The earliest possible
time the issue can again be put be-fore
the voters is in two years,
and then only if the state legisla-ture
is convinced voter sentiment
has changed sufficiently to war-rant
passing another referendum
bill.
The earliest possible date for
18-year old voting to go into ef-fect
in New Jersey is 1972, and
The week end of November 21
marks the first time this year
that IC-3 will be meeting to work
cooperatively on a particular is-sue
of common concern to all ed-ucational
institutions of higher
learning. The College of St. Cath-erine's
will be the center of the
activities of a non-conference on
educational reform.
Beginning on Friday night and
continuing through Sunday after-noon,
the non-conference will deal
with all the implications of edu-cational
reform. Workshops deal-ing
with student power, student-teacher
evaluation, grades and
graduation requirements„ and stu-dents
and social change are a few
of the areas of discussion.
Students, faculty and adminis-trators
of the seven Twin City
colleges will be participating in
an effort to bring educational re-forms
to the colleges in the Twin
Cities. Interested students, facul-ty
and administrators should con-tact
IC-3 representatives Denny
Olson and Arne Bergstrom for fur-ther
information on the non-con-then
only if 10 per cent of the
voters can be convinced to change
their minds in another referen-dum.
VAC is encouraged by Republi-can
Governor-elect William T. Ca-hill's
support for lowering the vot-ing
age, and the organization ex-pects
Cahill to campaign heavily
for it.
"Women's voting, Social Securi-ty,
and Medicare didn't pass the
first time around either, but peo-ple
didn't give up on them," a
VAC spokesman said, indicating
his continuing faith in the ballot.
"We in New Jersey don't give up
easily either."
In Ohio, where polls had pre-dicted
the 19-year old vote would
pass by several per cent, the story
is similar to that in New Jersey.
"We're quite well pleased with
the results," said Vote 19 Director
Clark Wideman. "It's just a mat-ter
of time until it passes.
"You see, nobody who voted for
it this time is going to vote against
it next time. We can only go up,
and we're just about one per cent
away from victory. A lot of our
supporters didn't expect we'd come
so close this time."
Wideman noted that a great deal
of campus unrest is the only thing
that could reduce this year's level
of voter support in future at-tempts.
The issue could be placed on
Ohio's May primary if a petition
drive, which is being considered,
is successful. The alternative to a
massive petition drive is return-ing
to the state legislature and
convincing it to place the issue
on a future ballot, Wideman said.
We're going to study the alter-natives
for awhile," he said.
Eleven other states will place
the voting age before their voters
next year, but prospects for low-ering
the age have not been im-proved
by this month's results.
ference. "The non-conference is
open to everyone. Since it is the
`average' students who will be af-fected
by any reform, his voice in
bringing about these reforms is
most important," Bergstrom stated.
Sharing importance with the
study of educational reform will be
the creation of an environment in
order for conference representa-tives
to work together more ef-fctively.
Since interpersonal rela-tionships
are usually missing at
conferences and this omossion of-ten
leads to a failure of the con-ference
to take action when it is
over, group dynamics will be an
important part of the entire non-conference.
The educational reform non-conference
is the first major step
in IC-3's resource center program.
A long term educational reform
non-committee will be formed as
a result of the non-conference to
provide a resource center in the
area of educational reform. Par-ticipating
colleges will be given
direction for their own programs
of educational reforms.
Nik Dag traditionally turnabout time
Convocation on rock polarizes views
MOBE wants a peaceful march
IC-3 holds workshop
Sedeekot Vorea efoetc
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
igook Rebirth
The Twilight of Western Thought
by Chuck Myrbo
From the Daily Calendar, November 5, 1969:
Bethel Community
In the interests of clarification of policies that have been
taken as a consensus of the campus community, and that now
need to be explicitly stated and critically examined, the Student
Services Office publicizes as its current operating princple:
". . . that recreational dancing is viewed as detrimental
to the psychic and spiritual health of the community and is
forbidden as a form of campus and/or Bethel-directed activity.
Student Services Office
From a book by Piet Hein called Grooks:
CIRCUMSCRIPTURE
As Pastor X steps out of bed
he slips a neat diguise on:
that halo round his priestly head
is really his horizon.
Given that hard rock has a potentially dangerous power
over the biology and psychology of American youth. Given
that this power is often used dangerously. That it is nowhere
near as dangerous as Mr. Larson claims it is I am prepared to
argue, but that would take the kind of time (and opportunity
to choose appropriate facts) that Larson had, so I won't do it
here. Find me on campus sometime and I'll talk to you —
unemotionally.
But one thing I will say now. Larson's main point was
that the effect of rock music, because it is unconscious and
because it is above our poor power to resist, is evil and must
be fought. Agreed. He stretched his case completely beyond
the limits of logic and his evidence, but he was right that many
rock musicians use their power dishonestly and immorally.
So you can talk about the psychological and biological
effects of hard rock. But you can also talk about the psychologi-cal
and biological effects of a persuasive speaker, about the
emotive power of words, about the overpowering effect of a
barrage of well-chosen illustrations, and the even greater
power that the evocation of the Holy Spirit as the guiding
force in a meeting can have over the emotions of an audience.
Ten-meeting evangelists since Jonathan Edwards have
used their persuasive power to pull tears from audiences and
to pull audiences to altars. They have used that power dishon-estly
and immorally. Adolph Hitler used the same methods
to make a whole country watch while he killed six million
Jews. The means were the same — and the fact that the ends
were different in no way justified those means.
The music Larson played was, neither in volume nor in
quality, representative of rock. His logic was faulty. And he
used the same type of power to sway an audience that he
condemned in rock musicians. So I still say, with Chuck Berry
(grandfather of rock), that "it's gotta be rock 'n' roll music."
And I'll still keep the Beatles at the top of my column.
Macalester presents Nonce/it'
by Ronald L. Roper
My only apology for reviewing
just books for which I have care-fully
searched, spent hard-earned
cash and given my highest recom-mendation,
is that life is short.
I seek to value those things which
are valuable for the Kingship of
Christ in my own sphere of spec-ialization
as a member of the Body
of Christ. Will you join me?
In The Twilight of Western
Thought — Herman Dooyeweerd,
1960. $2.50, paperback. (Craig
Press, Order Department, Box 13,
Nutley, New Jersey, 07110) Avail-able
at BBS and the Library.
This book remains one of the
only two introductions (in Eng-lish)
to the tremendously import-ant
school of Christian Philosophy
which has developed over the past
fifty years among several of the
faculty of the Free University of
Amsterdam in the Netherlands,
and elsewhere.
The average reader may find the
reading difficult; the Christian
thinker will discover a bombshell
here. Not since the Protestant
Reformation (what other?), has the
Word of God blazed such signi-ficant
trails into prevailing and
uncritically accepted premises of
Non-Christian thought as at the
hands of this Christian Philosophy
(called, for lack of an exact trans-lation,
The Philosophy of the Law-
Idea).
To my own queries, over the
past year-and-a-half, as to why
this philosophy is little known
among many Evangelicals the fol-lowing
considerations slowly came
to light.
1) The philosophy is entirely
too Christian. For those of you
who appreciate compound adjec-tives,
this movement could be
tagged "Un-American," Anti- Com-munist
(in the same breath!), an-ti-
rationalistic, anti - existentialis-tic,
non-liberal, non-conservative,
(pant, pant) and maybe even anti-disestablishmentarian.
In short:
unprecedented. For those who
would, if children of God, seek
earthly solace in any philosophy
not at the start informed by the
Scriptures, they could find n o
comfort here. For those who pre-sume
that personal salvation suf-fices
to justify prefixing all their
works "Christian," the continual
succession of double-takes encoun-tered
in this book may well in-timidate
them.
2) The philosophy is entirely
too difficult. Here we have an
indictment to challenge the hardy
intellectual Believer! Americans,
in general, have not been edu-cated
to think deeply and widely.
Amazingly, the source of this ten-dency
stems itself from a philos-ophy
(for the uninitiated). And to
make matters worse, Fundamental
Evangelical American Christians,
in large, have gone further to su-perimpose
an even more restric-tive
philosophy upon the first
one. Oh, woe is we! By withdraw-ing
from hard mental tasks, tacit-ly
affirming the credo "If it's dif-ficult
it's dangerous," we finally
capitulate a truly Christian poten-tiality
and uncritically assume the
"obvious" truth of an alien
thought form or way of life which
has squirmed into the gaping cre-vices
of our emptied minds.
3) The philosophy is entirely
too recent. That may seem anoma-lous,
considering the nearly half-century
of its development. The
problem lies in translation. Barely
more than ten years ago, the final
volume of Herman Dooyeweerd's
A New Critique of Theoretical
Thought was translated from
Dutch into English. So who knows
Dutch?!
This four-volume work (just pur-chased
by the Bethel College Li-brary
at the end of last school
year is much too erudite for the
average reader; it's even rather
scary to look at. Certainly no one
would read it in his spare time.
Actually, it i s providential
that such a powerful tool should
arise from the Dutch language.
It varies enough from German to
avoid the main thrusts of such
destructive tendencies as Barth-ianism,
neo-orthodoxy in general,
and the great variety of assorted
heresies, the direct linguistic ex-posure
to which could have been
disintegrating to fruitful expansion
of a Sciptural concensus.
On the other hand, sufficient
variance from the English lan-guage
facilitated isolation from
British logical positivism and lin-guistic
analysis. And yet, the ready
availability of European thought
generated beneficial dialogue, the
absence of which could have im-mediately
marked this Christian
Philosophy for either immediate
assault or passive disinterest.
The subsequent need for "popu-larizations"
such as In The Twi-light
of Western Thought will be
obvious. Strictly speaking, howev-er,
this book could better be
termed the "introduction to the
popularization." (The populariza-tion
being An Introduction To
Christian Philosophy by J. M. Spier
—Craig Press—$3. 175, paperback)
The Twilight commences with an
historical and critical analysis of
continued from page 6
being attacked, interrupted, or
otherwise disrupted by Larson.
Mr. Youngblood, a psychology
instructor, stated during the ques-tion-
and-answer session that he
got a spiritual message from some
rock music, and why does Larson
categorically reject the whole
field? Larson replied that the
very form of rock-and-roll was
inherently bad since the beat and
sound of rock rejects restraint
and promotes rebelliousness.
When you are dealing with rock
it is fallicious to say that the
music is bad because you consider
the composer's life immoral, Bruce
Lawson, seminary student said.
For if you systematically followed
this principle you'd have to de-stroy
large amounts of literature,
art, and classical music.
Paul Mauger, psychology profes-sor,
followed through on this ques-tion
and raised the dilemma of
Van Gogh cutting off his ear
and sending it to a prostitute.
Does this invalidate his work?
Does the homosexuality of Michal-angelo
make his statue of David
immoral and contaminating t o
Christian eyes?
Larson responded that with the
advent of mass communication,
we had to consider the total en-tity
within the art work itself.
Before the advent of mass media,
the personal lives of the perform-ers
or artists weren't so publiciz-ed.
(i.e. the Beattles)
However, this is an invalid ar-gument,
for even if you accept the
position that a work of art is im-moral
because of the association
it has or because of the immorality
of the artists, it does not matter
the humanistic dogma of the auto-nomy
or "Reason" (which probably
every reader of this article—even
"non-readers . . . " — would likely
affirm, if he knew what it encom-passed.
Two chapters are thus ex-pended,
with the conclusion that
this doctrine arose from a religious
concensus which was in no way
informed by the Scriptures: the
Word of God.
The next chapters are concerned
with historicism ��� a prevailing
thought-form in many circles
which trickles all through our
culture. The foundations for a
truly Christian philosophy of his-tory
and culture can be perceived
at the root of this radical and un-usual
critique of historistic trends.
The following three chapters on
"Philosophy and Theology" must
be unreservedly recommended to
all students of these subjects.
These chapters, to my mind, were
worth the price of the book. Every
tentative Christianity major would
be wise to investigate these words
with a prayerful heart.
The final chapter, "What Is
Man," is a brief and admittedly
prolegommenal anthropology o f
man (we would probably use the
phrase, "expanded personality the-ory").
Any psychology major would
be somewhat unsettled in his chair
after reading it.
To sum up, In The Twilight of
Western Thought, is dynamite in
the right hands. You left hands
keep away! But seriously, I wish
that every sincere student and
professor at Bethel College could
read this little book.
how many people are aware of the
artist's personal life; the salient
fact is that the persons themselves
and thus the art work are immoral.
(I doubt that Larson would contend
that the same immoral object is
moral for some people who are
ignorant and immoral for people
who know about the immorality of
the artist.)
Larson was asked for names
of composers and compositions
of what he considered was good
contemporary music. He conceded
that there was "good" contempor-ary
music around but stood mute
while trying to come up with
some specific answers. Someone
in the audience suggested Bern-stein's
West Side Story. Larson
concurred. Another audience voice
popped up, "oh no, how can you
say that? West Side Story talks
about anarchy and rebellion in the
streets?"
Larson felt that if the lyrical
content was not anti-Biblical, that
would be good music, Arne Berg-strom
pointed out an example of a
contemporary rock song that was
pro-Biblical and pro-Jesus. Lar-son
then reverted back to his
position that all rock music was
inherently evil and complete ab-stinence
from rock was necessary
for a spiritually pure life.
Larson, however, in response to
a question by Mark Steward,
doubted that every one of the
songs in the hymnal was divinely
inspired by God.
If we carry Larson's reasoning
out, I certainly hope all the com-posers
of hymns led morally pure
lives, otherwise we're being cor-rupted
by singing hymns—irre-gardless
of the lyrical content or
message of the hymns.
Friday, November 14, 1969
Adapted from the November 9
issue of Minneapolis Tribune
Macalester is having a Noncert.
Monte Nason, a fifth-year senior
music major at the college is or-ganizing
the noncert as well as
serving as concertmaster.
The noncert is not a joke, it is
an attempt to integrate serious and
contemporary music. The Walker
Art Center and the Schubert Club
are co-sponsoring the event.
The Noncert at Macalester will
happen in the Janet Wallace Fine
Arts Center at 8:30, Tues., Nov.
18.
Without much coaxing, Nason
talked one day last week about
some of the numbers (non-num-bers?)
that will be presented at
the noncert.
" 'Prelude' will probably be
Survey co
continued from page 3
better things than what is heard
on the radio and TV. They assume
we will leave Bethel with broader
educations than those we came
with. If this is to be so, we must
study, and hopefully learn to ap-preciate,
and somehow help others
to learn to appreciate more intel-lectual
music.
There is no reason, then why
highly aleatoric," said Nason pro-foundly.
"We will have some old
records playing on an old Vic-trola
and someone eating apples."
" 'Hatred From My Heart
Springs a Hundred Fold' is an aria
from a Red Chinese Opera called
`The Red Lantern.' As far as I
know, this will be the United
States premiere for the song."
"In 'Events for Chorus, Orches-tra
and Beachball,' the two con-ductors
throw the beach ball a-round,
and whoever catches it has
to make some music or some kind
of a sound."
"Pictures of an Exhibitionist'
is still shaping up. I can only say
for sure that it involves whistles,
highway signs, pencil sharpeners
and some other more traditional
instruments."
mpleted
Bethel's music department need
drastically change. We do repre-sent
the school well, we do influ-ence
many to come here, and we
represent a higher education mu-sically,
even as other departments
represent higher education in their
respective fields, and no one feels
they should change their curri-culums
to a more "pop" level.
Jo Ellen Worrell '70
the CLARION
Page 7
Is rock inherently evil?
Consult God's 'disciple'
Page 8
the CLARION
Friday, November 14, 1969
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• ~Oh - •
Tim Larson maneuvers around Hamline defender as Lee Granlund and Dan Anderson
move in for support. Though out-played, Ham line won the game 1-0.
Hamline beats soccer team
in heartbreaker of the season
The last game of the season
became the heartbreaker of the
season. The Hamline Pipers, who
have had a season they would just
as soon forget about, tipped the
Royals 1-0. It was Bethel's turn
to be the team that did everything
but score.
Playing before a large group
of fans, including the president,
the Royals put out a supreme ef-fort
and showed teamwork and
skill that made Hamline look like
the underdog they were. But scor-ing
chances were choked off by
the small field, and a tough defen-sive
alignment by the opposition.
With four fullbacks in the sec-ond
half, Bethel was only able
to shoot at a well of legs. Each
bar on the goal was hit two or
three times including the upright
which was bent down half a foot.
Hamline got its break in the
second half when they scored on
a rebound. It came after a dis-puted
play in which, according to
rules, the referee was wrong. He
disagreed with the linesman on
an out-of-bounds play and kicked
the linesman out of the game.
To some players and observers, it
appeared that Bethel was playing
against twelve men instead o f
eleven.
Throughout the rest of the game,
Bethel kept the pressure on and
the ball was constantly kicked
around the Hamline goal. But nev-er
in. Goalie Jon Nordstrom was
taken out of action for the last
thirty minutes after a collision
with a Hamline player. Jerry Jen-fa
finished the game in goal.
If the old adage that "it's not
whether you win or lose, but how
you play the game" is true, Bethel
won. But for the record, the Roy-als
lost and ended with a 4-4-2
season.
Coeds invade court with intercollegiate volleyball
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The Column
by Tim Weko
Well, Tuesday night will be well remembered at Bethel College
because of a person called Robert Larson. Larson is a former rock
and roll artist (I hope I don't offend any of the faculty when I used the
term "artist") who now goes to different high schools and colleges
and knocks rock, and he had an arsenal of material against rock music.
No one can deny that he had some very good points, although I'm quite
sure there are some equally good points on the other side of the fence.
Anyway, his point was well taken. Even though after his opening
remarks he had about the lowest ethos of any speaker I have ever heard,
he did convince me of one thing - that if you would rather have
rock music than God then something is wrong.
However, if you would rather have classical music than God or
long hair than God or short hair than God or wrestling than God or
basketball than God or food than God or a 4.0 gpa than God, then you
have a God of your own already, but it's the wrong God.
Every thing should have its own place. And for those of you who
didn't get to hear Mr. Larson speak and play (he played a "mean"
guitar) you really missed out, because I'm sure he is the only speaker
in Bethel College history to ever get put down by radiator noises.
*
Last week President Lundquist wrote a letter to the editor, and
I got a kick out of it even though I know he was serious. I would like
to quote his fifth point and then offer a brief paraphrase:
5. "Being sensitive to the feelings of the people who love Bethel
and who by their personal sacrifice make possible the continuation of
our school."
In other words, they know which side their bread is buttered on.
Honest, President Lundquist, I only meant it humorously. Anyway,
I am going to offer my last words (I think) on the music department
controversy. I don't have anything against that department personally.
In fact, I rather enjoy their performances - the band concert was
excellent last weekend - except when their activities pre-empt other
department activities (I guess I'm a dyed-in-the-wool jock at heart).
I merely want the music department to see its proper place (I
don't want this to become Bethel College of the musical arts) just
as the athletic department or the drama department or the art de-partment
or the history department should recognize its place. Some
people should remember that no part is bigger than the whole. We
don't want to lower the status of the music department, but we should
try to raise the other departments in the school up to an equal level.
Of course we know that all the departments here at Bethel are equal,
it's just that some are more equal than others.
* * *
After reading what I've just written, I think I'll stick to writing
about sports. It's a lot safer.
4111111r lettltamet4441-
The Bethel women have now
invaded the volleyball court. With
enough players for two full teams
and coaching by Miss Brownlee
the team has made a creditable
showing in their first three games.
St. Cloud was the team's first
opponent. The B team played an
exceptional game and took the
two out of three games necessary
for a win. The St. Cloud A team
however, trounced Bethel's team
15-5, 15-6.
In their next game Bethel play-ed
St. Catherine's and pulled off
a double victory. The B team
scores were 15-8, 15-3; the A team
in a close contest won 15-6, 13-15,
15-12.
Bethel's first home game was
against the University of Minneso-ta
and in spite of the home-fans'
cheering, Bethel was defeated in
both matches. The B team went
down 10-7, 15-3 and the A team
15-13, 15-5.
Miss Brownlee says that the
team, in playing St. Cloud and the
The Royals took to the gridiron
for the final time this season,
last Saturday, and were blasted by
Hamline 50-0.
Bethel just wasn't able to con-
University, have already faced
their toughest opponents, so they
are looking ahead to some victor-ies.
Monday, on the home court at
6:45, Bethel plays Carleton Col-lege,
and Wednesday, again at
home, Bethel faces Lakewood Ju-nior
College.
tain the Piper offensive attack,
as Hamline pounded out 435 net
rushing yards. Senior quarterback
Larry Hegerle directed Hamline
to a 29-0 halftime lead. He scored
their first touchdown on an 11
yard run, and threw touchdown
passes to Terry Larson and Jed
Knuttila in the second period.
Rick Anderson scored the other
second quarter touchdown.
In the second half the Pipers
continued to roll up yardage and
scored three more times. Warren
Dufresne, Bert Heaton, and Rick
Anderson each hit the end zone on
short runs.
Although the score doesn't show
it, at times Bethel was able to
move the ball well. The Royals
chalked up 16 first downs in com-parison
to Hamline's 17, but they
couldn't come up with the needed
yardage in crucial situations. The
Royals most effective weapon was
the pass, with Murray Sitte hitting
on 21 of 36 tosses for 185 yards.
John Peterson and Dave Pound
each made several fine receptions.
Playing in their final game for
Bethel were seniors: Cal Harfst,
Gary Hasselblad, Murray Sitte,
Dave Pound, Barry Anderson, Pete
Roemer, Bob Olsen, Tom Swanson
and Fred Swedberg.
November 8, 1969
Off Campus 0 vs 2nd Old 0
Falcon 7 vs 1st Floor 6
Faculty 1 vs 3rd Old 0
New Dorm 7 vs Pit 6
3rd New 20 vs 2nd New 6
Standings
1. Falcon 8 0
2. 2nd New 6 2
3. Off Campus 5 3
4. Faculty 5 3
5. Third New 4 4
6. First Floor 3 5
7. New Dorm 3 5
8. Pit 3 5
9. Second Old 2 6
10. 3rd Old 0 8
Nov. 15
9:30
Faculty vs 2nd New
New Dorm vs 3rd New
10:30
Falcon vs Pit
2nd Old vs 3rd Old
Off Campus vs First Floor
Volleyball Standings
1st place
"Golden Agers" (faculty)
3rd Hagstrom
2nd Hagstrom
2nd place
1st Old Bodien
3rd New Bodien
2nd Old Bodien
3rd place
New Dorm
2nd New Bodien
Iraho Manor
4th place
1st New Bodien
3rd Old Bodien
Falcon
Center
Pascal
5th place
1st Hagstrom
Eagle
In tennis in the round-robin
doubles tournament, Miss Starr
and Sarah Reasoner have defeated
all their opponents, and have the
first place slot.
In second with a 1-1 record are
Miss Brownlee and Carla Ask.
Sandy Sanford and Mrs. Wilson
occupy the third place slot with
0-1, and Janet Olson and Eva
Heinmets are in fourth with a
0-2 record.
In the double-elimination singles
tourney, Melissa McCool and Sarah
Reasoner still have no losses and
are playing in the finals. Connie
Olson has one loss so she is still
in the tournament, and is play-ing
in the consolation bracket.
November 4
Bowling Standings
New Dorm I 13
New Dorm II 11
First Floor I 11
Falcon I
103/4
Off Campus 81/2
First Floor II
61/2
Second New 31/2
Second Old
Third New 13/4
New Dorm III 0
High Games
1. Don White 223
2. Dave Nethercott 221
3. Bob Brodin 207
4. Kent Erickson 193
5. Bob Brodin 186
High Series
1. Don White 561
2. Kent Erickson 521
3. Bob Brodin 521
Most Improved
1. Bob Brodin 103 pins
2. Rick Peterson 89
November 11
High Games
1. Carl Rippie 215
2. Jim Delich 199
3. Larry Day 190
4. Dale Finch 186
High Series
1. Jim Delich 522
2. Carl Rippie 513
3. Dan Brown 489
Most Improved
1. Jim Delich 92 pins
2. Carl Rippie 80
Pipers blast the Royals
as football season ends

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Vol. XLV—No. 11 Bethel College, St. Paul Minn.
11111166— I
Friday, November 14, 1969
S. U. I. nears reality as new trend in learning
Gene Cotton, touring the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, will
present Nik Dag couples with a folk concert tonight at 8 p.m.
Nov.17-21 brings
missions guests
World Missions Week, Novem-ber
17 - 21, brings missionaries
from many foreign fields to our
campus for a time of sharing,
praying, laughing, and crying to-gether.
Missionaries are everywhere —
in the coffee shop, in the cafe-teria,
in the lounges of the dorms
and manors, in the classroom, in
formal speaking engagements and
in informal bull sessions. These
Baptist Conference representa-tives
have come to give a part of
themselves to help each of us
find God's leading and to en-courage
us in the Lord's work
from around the world.
The chapel speakers for this
week of missions emphasis come
from the fields of the Philippines,
Japan, Ethiopia, the Virgin Islands
and Brazil. The Clifford Bubars,
Virgin Islands; the William Mur-rays,
Ethiopia; the Roy Nelsons,
Philippine Islands; the Glenn Og-rens,
Brazil; and the Glen Swan-sons
from Japan have taken time
from their deputation work across
the country to join us for this
week.
Missionary candidates for ap-pointment,
Rev. and Mrs. Fred
Lund, will also be with us and
Rev. Lund will be speaking in
the Friday chapel hour. Rev. Lund,
a 1969 graduate of the Bethel
Seminary and a 1966 college grad-uate,
served as the debate coach
Getting this year's Nik Dag off
to a start will be Gene Cotton,
who comes to us from a recent
tour in Nashville, Tennessee and
several cities in Indiana. At 8
for the college in 1967-68. His
wife, Sharon, did considerable de-bate
and forensic work during her
college years at Bethel and has
since been teaching in an ele-mentary
school in Bloomington.
Their appointment will be made
at the December Foreign Board
meeting. According to Dr. Clar-ence
Bass, member of the Foreign
Board, it is hopeful that a year
from now the Lunds will be on
the field and in language train-ing.
The recent closing of the Assam,
India, field h a s returned Rev.
George Johnson to the States.
Presently Rev. Johnson is working
on his Master of Theology Degree
at the 'Bethel Seminary. He will
also be a Missions Week guest.
Rev. Vernon Anderson, recently
returned from Brazil, is also do-ing
some work at the seminary and
will be joining in this week's ac-tivities.
Mrs. Anderson is present-ly
a student in the college.
During the latter part of the
week former missionary to Japan,
Rev. Dale Bjork will be be on
campus. Rev. Bjork is presently
serving as the Assistant Secretary
of the Foreign Mission Board.
All of these people will be
available for discussion and fel-lowship
in all areas of campus life.
These missionaries are willing and
eager to share their experiences
in their endeavor to take Christ
to the world.
p.m. this evening in the fieldhouse,
he will be presenting a folk con-cert.
Cotton began his professional
. folk-singing career with a folk
SUI, a response to the closing
of Bethel Center in the fall of
1968, crossed one of its major
hurdles in realizing the imple-mentation
of its proposal. The pro-gram
will be supported by the
Minnesota Baptist Conference and
Bethel College and Seminary.
What remains is the acceptance
of the proposal by the Education-group
in 1963-64, but this was
cut short by a hitch with the U.S.
Army.
Since that time, Cotton has been
busy traveling around the coun-try,
with his wife Marnie, giving
concerts in high schools, coffee
houses, and on college campuses.
In addition to his "In person con-certs,"
his third album will be
out on the market in December.
Two years ago, Cotton spent
two and a half weeks in Vietnam
entertaining our troops. When
asked what hit him the hardest
about the conditions there, he re-plied,
"I thought the whole thing
was pretty much of a mess be-cause
nobody really knows what's
going on. It's probably much
worse now, but the thing that
hit me the most were the little
children there. I could just see
my own brothers and sisters in
them. I could imagine how I would
feel if this were happening to me."
The group with which Cotton
traveled carried a program with
a spiritual emphasis. How were
they received? Cotton said, "We
were really received great! Of
course, the troops are eager for
any entertainment, but they seem-ed
to appreciate our program
much more than the average one.
We sang for most of the program
and then we would each share our
faith. The program would always
close on a spiritual note. It was
a terrific experience."
After finishing their tour in the
Minneapolis-St. Paul area, t h e
Cottons will be touring the New
England states. Then, perhaps
they will wish to head for their
home in Miami.
al Policies Committee and the fa-culty
at large. After this last
step, the program will become a
reality. This in conjunction with
the acceptance of the Crisis Colo-ny
program indicates a movement
towards a new trend in education
by the college.
It answers a need within the
traditional educational system to
supplement the classroom learn-ing
experience. "People become
truly motivated when they can
apply what they have learned,"
stated Steinhaus, Instructor of
Sociology and a member of the
planning committee. "This pro-gram
provides a maximum oppor-tunity
for such motivation."
The SUI Committee has been de-veloping
a program which will
provide an educational opportu-nity
for students from all areas
of the college. The program seeks
to fulfill three goals: 1) education
(being the primary goal); 2) in-volvement
in spiritual witness in
the community; 3) meeting the
immediate physical needs of the
community.
In response to spiritual witnes-sing,
Steinhaus stated, "We seek
to use a nontraditional approach
to meet the spiritual needs within
the community. Through our total
lives and close personal involve-ment
with the community, we
hope to present a type of twenty-four
hour witnessing."
SUI plans to focus on the Frank-lin
Street area which is a predomi-nately
Indian population. Empha-
WASHINGTON (CPS) — Ron
Young, Project Director for the
New Mobilization to End the War
in Vietnam, was trapped by re-porters
in a crowded corner of
the tiny MOBE press room.
His eyes bloodshot from sleep-less
nights and long hours of bick-ering
with Justice Department of-ficials,
Young kept up the facade
of optimism. Richard G. Klein-dienst,
deputy attorney general,
had announced only hours earlier
that no permit would be given
for the November 15 anti-war par-ade
down Pennsylvania Ave. ex-pected
to draw hundreds of thou-sands
from throughout the coun-try.
But Young maintained, "there
will indeed be permits."
It is the basic right of Ameri-sis
will be on junior and senior
high school age people. "Roughly
50 per cent of the junior high
students in this area do not go
on to complete their senior high
education," said Steinhaus.
Present plans are to rent a
house for six student and a semi-nary
couple to reside there twen-ty-
four hours a day. During the
morning several of the Bethel fa-culty
will conduct courses with the
students in the house. Afternoon
and evening activities will include
working through the programs
and agencies which are already
in existence in the area and be-coming
closely identified with the
residents of the community. Nu-merous
opportunities will be pro-*
vided for students and faculty to
discuss pertinent issues which will
be encountered.
Applicants to the program will
be screened by a committee which
will be looking for mature, re-sponsible,
open-minded Christian
students. Preference will be given
to sophomores and juniors with
the intent to bring back to the
campus the following year a great
deal of their experience and new
knowledge.
The Committee will consider
both the past and future of the
student as well as what he can
bring to the program itself. Since
it is a nine-month program in-cluding
30 credits interested stu-dents
should be concerned with
long range planning of their col-lege
program.
cans to demonstate, and Pennsyl-vania
Avenue is the official route
for parades in the capital. It
connects the two centers of power,
the Capitol and White House .. .
It is vital that we be able to pass
White House, for that is where
the president lives and he has the
power to end this war," Young
said.
The Justice Department denies
that right and says it will us the
"minimum force" necessary t o
keep the demonstrators off Penn-sylvania
Avenue and away from
the White House.
The difficulty with the Mobiliza-tion,
Kleindienst said, is that its
march lacks the predictable char-acter
"of an American Legion
parade," and therefore must be
continued on page 2
Folk singer Gene Cotton presents
Nik Dag weekend highlight tonight
MOBE seeks permit to march
Justice Department says, No'
Page 2
the CLARION Friday, November 14, 1969
Christ for communication
--are Bethelites hiding?
I was strolling down Mona last week swing with the birds, grooving
with the elements and generally digging the day when I spotted this
fellow who had doublecrossed me.
I socked-it-to-em in the eye. Zap. No response. He stood there
like a dummy. Undaunted, I gave it to him in the other eye. His eyes
clouded, his nose twitched with disdain, his rubbery lips formed a
self-righteous smirk.
He turned on his heel and saundered off convinced that he had
suppressed his baser instincts by "turning the other cheek" as Christ has
instructed his followers to do. I stood, mouth agape, my feelings of
frustration and alienation conpounded.
Just the other day I again was walking on Arona, this time heading
home to eat some supper before hurrying to the Senate meeting. Again
I spotted John Doe, and quickly crossed the street to confront him.
The air cracked with the impact of my fist against his jaw. His
direct gaze countered my antagonistic stare, and he stood, slightly be-mused,
dabbing at the blood running from the side of his mouth with
a handkerchief.
"Why did you do that?" John queried. I, taken aback by his seem-ing
willingness to communicate after absorbing such a blow, countered,
"I felt like it. I don't like how you are treating me or my friends.
I knew your attitudes and behavior weren't changing. I wanted to strike
out at you."
"What I am really curious to know," I continued, "is why you de-cided
to stay and confront me this time instead of smugly walking
away contemplating your navel and your morality as you did before."
"Let's go to the Flamburger," John replied. "I'll buy you a cup of
coffee and we can talk inside where it's warmer."
"You see," John started, "last week I felt that to have a Christo-centric
view of life I had to stoically suppress any negative emotion I
had towards you, remembering that the Lord forgave sinners because
they didn't know what they were doing. I felt I had to prove my worth
as a disciplined Christian by letting you strike out at me without
striking back."
"But you really were hurting our relationship a great deal by that
attitude," I replied. "More than if you would have physically struck
back. I felt that although you thought you were demonstrating your
Christianity and self-righteousness, you were actually falsely and per-functorily
fulfilling your obligation to the Christ ethic that you didn't
care for me as a person at all by your unwillingness to sit down and
talk with me with an open and receptive mind to try and understand
how I felt."
"True," John agreed. "I was copping out as a Christian. I was trying
to play the part of God by acting in a "Christian" manner (i.e. turning
the other cheek); but actually, my pious perversion of Christ's doctrine,
through my role-playing, caused me to overlook Christ's emphasis on
having the proper motivation for our actions."
"I realize now," John continued, "that actions, no matter how pious
they appear to people around me, are sheerest hypocrisy if I am working
to further my own glory and interests instead of Christs."
"That's why your original behavior confused and frustrated me so
terribly," I countered. "It seems to me that Christ did not come into
the world for the glory of Christ; but rather for people. Christ set an
example for us in direct communication with God and with other
people. The Holy Spirit rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom
when Christ gave up the ghost, a symbolic action to break down the
barriers that institutions and rituals had formed to prevent direct com-munication
from man to God and man to man."
"So my sense of urgency and emotional reaction to your personality
and ideas and your false piety, hypocrisy, and defenses blocked mean-ingful
communication," I surmised.
"I guess you're right," John conceded. "Christ came to establish
communication. We should take an open and honest look at ourselves
and our relations to other people—exercise understanding, tolerance,
and receptiveness if we are to have spiritual concerns instead of being
guided by financial or materialistic conditions or political power plays."
"It makes me wonder," I speculated. "If the main emphasis of
Bethel is a Christocentric view of life, why is everybody hiding from
each other?"
Otiffiti
The primary goal is the process, not the end product.
Did you realize that bad breath is damaging to the psyche?
Concensus is a fickle woman, everyone claims her and no one is
quite sure how she develops.
You can give a person access to knowledge, but you can't make
him think.
Expose: S. Claus, who espouses and practices a philosophy of
free distribution of goods, is a paid communist agent that is
infiltrating American society and corrupting our youth.
Hooray for the unpredictability of the human race.
May God prevent the social scientists from controlling all the
variables.
I sincerely hope that the breakdown of structures of authority
in American society today does not reflect itself in an attitude
of disrespect for garbage trucks; since the amount of physical
and verbal garbage in American society increases in leaps and
bounds every year.
UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY
fax
Marijuana
by Tom Ford
With recent estimates of first-time users ranging from Justice De-partment
estimates of 12 million to U.S. Public Health Service figures
of 20 million, it is quite apparent that maijuana has penetrated our
society quite deeply.
The widespread use of marijuana has brought into focus the
inadequate legal structure that has evolved around it. Most statutes
dealing with marijuana are based upon the misconception that marijua-na
is a narcotic — which research has adequately disproven.
Marijuana is a hallucogen that produces neither addiction nor
tolerance. Marijuana is not physically habit forming and it does not
naturally lead to stronger drugs.
It does however, 'lead to psychological' dependence for some users
and provides an escapist solution to real problems. Dr. James Goddard,
in an article for Life magazine, outlined six of the major questions that
must be answered by government sponsored research. They are:
"1. Does long term usage of marijuana have harmful effects?
2. Does it affect the reproductive processes?
3. What type of treatment will be most effective in rehabilitating
chronic users?
4. What conditions favor continuation of marijuana use as opposed
to moving to hard drugs?
5. What kinds of educational approaches are most effective in re-ducing
misuse?
6. Does marijuana affect human chromosomes?"
Dr. Goddard maintains that within the next three years, sufficient
data should be assembled to answer these questions.
In the meantime, he suggests, federal statutes should be updated
to account for our present understanding of the situation. However,
Dr. Goddard opposes legalizing the use of marijuana until after the
results of research are known.
A more correct approach would include reducing possession from a
felony to a misdemeanor which would give the courts a great deal of
leeway when handling offenders. Strict penalties for pushers should,
however, be maintained.
Dr. Goddard's opposition to legalizing marijuana is based on the
potential harm it may have that we have yet to discover or disprove.
Another factor is marijuana's effects on "adolescents who have not
learned to cope with the problems of daily life. . . "
Focusing upon the inconsistencies between the use of alcohol and
tobacco, and the prohibition of marijuana, Dr. Goddard states, "If
alcohol and tobacco were not already legal, we might very well decide
not to legalize them — knowing what we now know."
He closes his arguments against legalizing with the following
statement: "If it turns out to be quite harmful — a distinct possibility
— we will have introduced yet another public-health hazard that for
social and economic reasons might become impossible to dislodge."
Next week this column will feature Dr. Margaret Mead's arguments
for legalizing marijuana.
Tutorial system coming shortly
At the senate meeting this week, ceived by members of the Health
senators received a written re- Service, Dean Muck, faculty ad-port
from Sid Veenstra who is visor for the senate, stated that
presently working on structuring the Health Service staff, Dr. Bur-a
tutorial system. ton in particular, was more than
The report stated that Veenstra competent medically though he did
had been working with Bragg and not always supply the psychologi-had
acquired a copy of the Dean's cal reassurance that students
List. Present plans are to have sometimes needed and was hesi-interested
students indicate i n tant to recommend more expen-which
academic area they would sive medical procdures that were
like to tutor. Veenstra also re- not absolutely necesasry.
ported that they are looking for The senate also elected a stu-a
name for the program. dent representative to accompany
Senators discussed the problem Dave Shupe to the December meet-of
lack of students' confidence in ing of the Board of Education
the Health Service. Although sev- which will be held in Waukegan,
eral senators stated incidents from Illinois December 3-4. Rick Berg-personal
experience of dissatisfac- ren was chosen to go, with Tom
tion with the care they had re- Ford as alternate.
MOBE marches
continued from page 1
limited by the government. The
limiting of free assembly and dis-sent
is clearly unconstitutional and
certainly cannot be the tactic of
a free-world government, MOBE
spokesmen maintained.
Young, pressed and pressed a-gain
by reporters, explained, "We
are firmly committed to this
march, and we have faith in this
democratic government that it will
grant the necessary permit (for
one of two alternative routes pro-posed
by MOBE.) We have to go
ahead believing we have these
rights. I don't know what else to
believe. . ."
His voice trembled. And he told
reporters the march past t h e
White House may go with or with-out
a permit.
Later, talking with CPS report-ers,
Young said he realized chanc-es
are looking more gloomy for
reaching agreement with the Jus-continued
on page 6
Men will escort
An escort service is being or-ganized
by the residents of Ed-gren
dorm, according to its presi-dent,
John Larson. Under this
plan, Edgren men with cars would
provide transportation for Bethel
women with night off-campus
jobs. Pending further information,
girls needing transportation should
contact John Larson, Edgren 220,
P.O. 587.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
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Feature Editor Cindy Rostollan
Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche
Sports Editor Tim Weko
Copy Editors Toni Magnuson
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Reporters Wibby Smith, Carroll Jarp,
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Proofreaders Ruth Bogle
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Photographers Ray Smith
Phil Humbert
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Friday, November 14, 1969
the CLARION Page 3
BETHEL FORUM
Doc analyzes Clarion music coverage President's goals for performing
To the editor: music groups applied to athletics
I save my copies of the Clarion
because I dream of some day
writing a history of what I hope
may turn out to be four decades
at Bethel (D.V.). Historical per-spective
is a great antidote to
polarization based on emotional
reaction to singular experiences.
Having read the last three is-sues
of the Clarion, I decided to
explore last year's issues in the
light of the charge that the Clarion
is one-sided in its coverage of
the music groups and musical
performances. It is — but decided-ly
in favor of the department.
Here are my findings based on
hurried, but comprehensive scan-ning
of all but the last two is-sues
which undoubtedly gave cov-erage
to the music department's
contributions to commencement
activities and did include a fea-ture
article on Mr. Thomas' leave
of absence this year.
During the period from Sept-ember,
1968, to May, 1969, there
was no editorial comment regard-ing
the music department, per-forming
groups, or tastes in mu-sic.
The College Choir was fea-tured
in six news stories, includ-ing
a full-page spread on its Eu-
To the editor:
It has been very interesting to
read the letters to the editor in
the last two issues of the Clarion.
I was more interested in the mood
of the communication than what
particulars were being said.
An "educational experience"
takes place when two or more
sides can sit down and meaning-fully
relate to each other a point
of view. This relating involves
not only a speaking but also a
listening. The letters seemed to
not be following these basic ideas
behind an "educational experi-ence"
and the failure was in the
communication of their point of
views.
I once heard that true communi-cation
can only take place when
the opposing side must repeat back
the ideas expressed to the speak-er's
satisfaction. This involves un-ropean
concert tour. Most of the
stories were written by members
of the choir; none were unfavor-able.
The Women's Choir receiv-ed
coverage in two news stories;
the College Band's performances
were also featurel twice. In my
haste I may have overlooked any
mention of the Male Chorus with
which I have toured as a faculty
representative for nine years.
The senior recitals of music ma-jors
were announced in four sub-stantial
items. A story on the
career plans of one of the gradu-ating
seniors was also featured
in one of the issues. A new sacred
recording by one of the seniors
received favorable notice in the
Clarion. Forthcoming recitals by
members of the music faculty were
publicized in two issues, and an
interesting feature article was
that on the Paul Christians' mu-sical
instrument collection. A
workshop featuring Calvin Marsh
and a front page article on the
Suzanne Bloch (lutenist) convoca-tion
were a part of Clarion cov-erage.
Only two news articles featured
what I shall call recent vintage
music — one on the Avant-Garde
duo and another on the Ylvisakers
derstanding, i.e. comprehension, of
the other person's side. I believe
that this understanding was mis-sing
in most of the letters to the
editor.
These letters express in a small
way an attitude which is present
at Bethel. The lack of understand-ing
toward anyone who does not
possess the same views. Or even
the lack of caring about under-standing.
Or is it we don't know
how to care about each other —
we have never learned about car-ing
out of love. Is it we are
afraid of some kind of quanitita-tive
quality in caring for each
other? Caring involves a certain
amount of vulnerability which is
the beautiful thing about it —
the admission of one's need of
care. Admission of a weakness is
the first step in the strength of
caring.
Arne Bergstrom '70
—both playing "religious" music
s e t to contemporary idiom in
on-campus, all-school performanc-es.
There were subsequent re-views
on both that included criti-cal
comment. One other review,
generally positive, gave attention
to the New Folk who had appeared
in chapel. Among the numerous
contributions of Chuck Myrbo were
only four separate columns deal-ing
with his appreciation for the
Beatles and some rock music.
Four letters to the Clarion bal-anced
each other in twosomes.
Dr. Berglund, in a lengthy letter,
cogently stated his reaction to cer-tain
Clarion reviews and some of
his own philosophy of what con-stitutes
worthy music. A freshman
(not Myrbo), in a well-stated let-ter
of the same length, developed
a not-altogether contrary point of
view, rising to the defense of
groups like the New Folk. The
other twosome consisted of one
letter blasting the faculty for not
attending the Ylvisaker concert,
and another that defended their
right not to come and hear the
Ylvisakers.
The only notice that the Depart-ment
of History and Political Sci-e
n c e received was obliquely
through a letter to the editor
and a Myrbo column that gave
generally favorable notice to the
senior "recital" of one of its
double majors.
Recent letters to the editor im-ply
a Clarion crusade to under-mine
the music faculty and their
performing groups. In the October
24 editorial (that could stand some
professional editing, to be sure!),
the editor raised two questions
only: (1) are the musical tastes of
the department and its performing
groups representatives of those
of the average Bethel student; and
(2) does the young person who
hears and observes the choirs on
tour get a fulsome picture of the
varied student culture he may
encounter at Bethel? For the an-swers
to those two questions, look
and listen about campus. The edi-torial
did not call into question
the professional competence nor
the tremendous contribution of the
Department of Music to the cam-pus.
Unbalanced treatment? Nay!
Roy C. Dalton
Chairman of Department of
History and Political Science
To the editor:
The endorsement by President
Lundquist of the Music Department
at Bethel has caused some stimu-lation
of thought on another de-partment
within the Bethel com-munity,
that of Athletics. The
president lauded the department
of music for "In many ways the
department of Music by its very
nature is able to give visibilty to
some of Bethel's highest ideals
that otherwise are not as clearly
seen off campus." Clarion Novem-ber
7, 1969. This season in football
has also brought some visibility
to Bethel but the publicity brought
to our school is not of a positive
effect. All five of the emphases
suggested as descriptive of music
apply equally as well to Athletics
and the goals that an Athletic de-partment
in a Christian college
should have.
1. "Establishing high profession-al
standards as alone worthy of
the Lord whom we serve."
2. Disciplining life so that stu-dent
performance is marked by an
excellence in order to please Christ
and to glorify God.
3. Presenting the results of class-room
and laboratory work to God
in prayer as an offering of love
for His service.
4. Demonstrating concern about
the Christian impact of our campus
and its testimony to the world
around us.
5. Being sensitive to the feelings
of the people who love Bethel
and who by their personal sacri-fice
make possible the continua-tion
of our school.
Establishing high professional
standards, disciplining life, stu-dent
performance marked by ex-cellence
— these sound as if they
could be taken from an athletic
training handbook. A season rec-ord
of 0-9 and a three year win-ning
total of one game is some-thing
less than a positive concern
for the impact of our campus and
its testimony to the world around
us. For athletics has a great Chris-tian
impact, both on prospective
students, alumni, and other ob-servers
of Bethel.
What needs to be recognized is
that the athletic program of this
college has perhaps as much ef-fect
as the testimony of other
departments in the college. We
do not mean to disparage the
president's comments or his praise
of the music department — we
simply request a recognition of
the fact that the athletic depart-ment
has a great effect and a
great testimony and is in need of
support and some due recognition.
The Christian athlete is a unique
brand of person and in this age
when Sports takes so much of
the limelight, a half-hearted ef-fort
is seen in a negative light.
A cheer, short but to the point,
indicates the spirit necessary for
victory — "you gotta wanna." But
spirit is not the only ingredient
necessary for victory — there
must be something in back of that
spirit. If spirit or plain guts was
the sole factor then this year's
team would have had a 9-0 sea-son.
But there must be something
to substantiate that spirit — a
full program must be in force to
provide a meaning to spirit. Such
things require an investment but
an investment that will produce
results far beyond that cost. Part
of that cost includes financial as-sistance
to valuable athletes to
build a competitive program. Each
of the five goals suggested by the
president can be accomplished on-ly
if there is such an investment.
At this stage in the planning of
the new campus, such a program
should be included in the plan-ning
as a top priority item. Edu-cation
must include the total per-son
and a half-hearted effort in
one area weakens the whole.
Tom Molin '71
Keith R. Anderson '71
Larry Van Epps '71
Bill Painter '70
Letters show misunderstanding
between opposing points of view
Survey reveals representation
of Bethel by music department 'Keep it clean and constructive'
To the editor,
A survey was taken last week
in regards to the editorial of
October 24 to determine whether
the school as a whole felt that
the music department was mis-representing
Bethel.
Two hundred fifty-one replies
were returned in which a little
less than 25% said we do mis-represent
the school, but several
of these who felt we misrepresent
the school also stated that the
touring groups portray a college
of higher spiritual and moral
standards than is actually present
on campus.
About thee-fifths of those who
replied had heard the touring
groups before coming to Bethel.
Some stated that contact with
these groups had great influence
or were the direct cause of their
coming to Bethel.
Music, a recognized and accept-able
media of communication, is
also performance oriented. May I
suggest that it is the "timid book-sh
parasites" who have the abili-ty
and nerve to stand up before
audiences in chapel, churches, and
elsewhere to play and sing, often
as solists. One can't be too timid
or too bookish to do this!
As for "pop" music — Bethel
is an institution for higher learn-ing.
If our touring groups sing and
play the current popular music,
we are not representing the ideals
of higher education in the field
of music. And since the best learn-ing
is integrated learning, should
we not perform music which we
are learning about in the class-room.
We can't portray a higher
musical education to others if we
sing "pop" music and those who
support Bethel are assuming that
we come here to learn more and
continued on page 7
To The editor:
For many young Americans it
seems that badmouthin' the way
of life is rapidly replacing base-ball
as the national pastime. Why
don't they just look at the won-derful
things which are theirs
to enjoy instead of spouting off
all the time?
Soap for instance. How would
they like to live in a country with-out
soap, or where it was sliced
off an ugly chunk, wrapped in
plain brown paper and slung at
them across the counter? One
visit to the local supermarket
should show them how really great
our country is. Our patronage of
the arts and sciences is evidenced
by the young artists and chemists
we apparently employ to beauti-fully
package our soap, inscribe
it with graceful designs, as well
as to bestow on it a fragrance
which emanates throughout the
entire aisle.
Take Dove, for example, a real-ly
groovy cake of soap. With its
curvy lines it makes the cube-shaped
cakes look very square and
traditional. And all this because
some young person somewhere in
our land put heart and mind to
work on an age-old problem. After
all how, many square inches of
flat space do you have on your
body? This groovy Dove with its
concave and convex curves slips
under the armpit and over the
belly without a sign of friction.
It can be held safely and com-fortably
without the least bit of
fear of dropping it.
There are countless problems
which seem to defy solution and
some are every bit as serious as
the lack of fit between body de-sign
and soap shape. For exam-ple,
instead of wasting your energy
criticizing the country, why not
try to design a bar of soap that
can slip through the clenched
teeth of a pacifist or a policeman
and wash some of the vileness
out of their mouths? Or especially
for Bethel, a bar with a gentle
point for those whose ears are
closed to the other fellow's music,
or one with a self-destruct corner
which will leave a deposit in the
middle ear so as to clean up the
sound before it enters the brain
and defiles it.
Or, if soap engineering is not
your bag, why not put your crea-tive
and constructive touch on
some other equally serious prob-lem
in today's world instead of
just complaining about it.
Donald N. Larson
Professor of Linguistics
and Anthropology
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Conference missionaries migrate to
ww II devastation prompts Swanson
to serve God through Japan missions
The Mie Prefecture on Honshu
Island in Japan has been the cen-ter
of missionary activity for Rev.
Glen E. Swanson who will speak
during Chapel on Thursday of
World Mssions Week at Bethel.
Born and raised in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, Swanson entered
Bethel College and Seminary and
completed three years here. In
1943 he joined the U.S. Marines
and was assigned to the Fifth
Division. The day before his divi-sion
was to leave for overseas,
Swanson was informed that he
had been selected for officers
training, and in March of 1945
received his commission. After
seeing the graves of 208 out of
240 of his fellow Marines on Iwo
Jima, and upon viewing the ruins
left by the atom bomb on Naga-saki,
Swanson felt the call of God
Rev. William Murray, on fur-lough
from missionary service in
Ethiopia, will be one of the guest
speakers during World Missions
Week at Bethel.
Murray is a native of the state
of California. He graduated from
the University of California with
a B.S. degree. After a semester
at the Bible Institute of Los An-geles,
he came to Bethel Seminary
where he received his B.D. degree.
His wife, Alice Murray was born
in Yucaipa, California and gradu-ated
from the San Bernardino
Valley Junior College. Following
that graduation she spent a year
studyiing at the Bible Institute
of Los Angeles.
The Murrays were appointed as
missionaries under the Baptist
General Conference and went to
Assam, India in November of 1951.
Due to government regulations
regarding the number of mission-aries
in India, they were rede-signated
to another field. They
began work in Ethiopia in May of
1954, working mainly in the area
of Ambo.
The Murrays have been active
on several committees of the mis-sion
field council. Their activities
have included teaching Bible in
Glen Swanson
to bring the gospel to the people
of the islands of Japan.
Discharged from Marine service
in September of 1946, the Swan-the
Dresser School at Ambo and
an evening Bible school, literacy
work among women, Bible classes
and counselling. They have also
prepared Bible study materials.
During their past term, the Mur-rays
have been involved in evan-gelism
and church planning in
Addis Ababa. Murray has served
as pastor of the English congre-gation
and as an advisor to the
Amharic church.
While on furlough in the States,
the Murray family are making
their home on the west coast
while Rev. Murray is engaged in
a deputation ministry among the
churches of the Baptist General
Conference.
sons carefully considered the pros-pect
of foreign mission serivce.
Swanson received his B.A. from
the University of Minnesota, and
in June, 1950, graduated from
Bethel Seminary with a B.D. de-gree.
In December of the same
year they sailed for Japan.
The Swansons have seen church-es
organized and buildings con-structed.
They have been involved
in tent meetings, home visitation,
hospital visitation, and weekly ser-vices
in the Minsei Tuberculosis
Hospital.
During their third term the
Swansons were active in church
planting and supervising f i v e
churches which became independ-ent.
Rev. Swanson, his wife, and
their four children are residing
here in St. Paul, Minnesota during
furlough.
William Murray
Mrs. George Johnson who is now in the Twin Cities shown
fulfilling her nursing duties at a clinic in Assam, India.
Welid Weedaoyea Wee% Scitedede
CHAPEL
Monday
Rev. Roy Nelson—Missionary to The Philippine Islands
Tuesday
Rev. Vernon Anderson—Missionary to Brazil
Rev. Clifford Bubar—Missionary to the Virgin Islands
Wednesday
Rev. Glenn Ogren—Missionary to Brazil
Rev. William Murray—Missionary to Ethiopia
Thursday
Rev. Glen Swanson—Missionary to Japan
Friday
Fred Lund—Missionary candidate awaiting appointment
PRAYER MEETINGS — 8:00-8:30 a.m.
(Student led in the Seminary Hall Chapel)
Tuesday: Rev. Clifford Bubar
Wednesday: Rev. William Murray
Thursday: Rev. Roy Nelson
Friday: Rev. Glenn Ogren
PRAYER MEETINGS — 10 p.m.
Open discussion Missionary Encounter in dorms
Monday: Rev. Clifford Bubar in Edgren
Tuesday: Rev. Roy Nelson in Hagstrom
Wednesday: Mrs. Clifford Bubar in Bodien
Mrs. Glen Swanson in Center Manor
Thursday: Rev. Swanson in the New Dorm
LUNCHEONS �� 11:30
Informal conversation in the President's Dining Room with the
Chapel speakers of the day, Tuesday—Friday
Murrays' make the mission scene in Ethiopia
Dr. Schoonmaker, foreground, shown in the process of an operation at an eye clinic for
removing cataracts in Assam, India.
Miss Helen Bergfalk shown in her work in Christian educa-tion
and literacy near the clinic in Tezpur, Assam, India. Miss
Bergfalk is the aunt of former Clarion editor Lynn Bergfalk.
Glenn Ogren
Picture taken in India illustrating the use of Gospel Recordings, which presents the Gos-pel
in 2-3,000 languages, many of which are not yet in written form.
Friday, November 14, 1969
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Bethel during World Missions Week
Clifford Bubars visit Bethel on their
furlough from the Virgin Islands
Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Bubar
are missionaries on furlough from
St. Croix, Virgin Islands. The Bu-bars
began their ministry in the
Virgin Islands in 1956. Starting
in the town of Fredriksted, with
nothing , the work has grown in-to
a strong church, a mission at
Montserat and a new work at
Christiansted.
The members of the church on
the island of St.. Croix are eager
to spread the gospel. They fully
support a national missionary fam-ily
on the nearby island of Mont-serat.
One of the new converts
has donated the property for the
Christiansted church and money
for the building is coming in
rapidly.
One of the rewarding phases
of the work is that of home Bible
studies. The Crucians are eager
to meet informally with the mis-sionaries
both individually and in
small groups.
Each summer over 100 children
come to Carib Camp to enjoy
youthful activity and Bible study
led by the Bubars. The Bubars
serve under the Home Mission
Board of the Baptist General Con-ference.
Clifford Bubar Mrs. Bubar
Roy Nelson, director of Philippine
Theological College speaks Monday
Rev. Roy K. Nelson, missionary
to the Philippine Islands, will be
the speaker in Chapel on Monday
of World Missions Week.
Nelson is a native of the state
of Washington. He attended Beth-el
College for two years and then
transferred to the University of
Washington where he earned his
B.A. degree. He took an additional
year of study to obtain his sec-ondary
teaching certificate. Upon
graduation he entered Bethel Sem-inary
where he received the B.D.
degree in 1954. Rev. Nelson pas-tored
the Maple Leaf Baptist
Church in Seattle from 1948-52,
and the First Baptist Church at
Litchfield, Minnesota from 1952-
54.
Mrs. Nelson is from Chicago
and graduated from Bethel Junior
College, and from the South Shore
Hospital School of Nursing in Chi-cago.
The Nelsons were appointed
for service in the Philippines by
the Baptist General Conference at
its annual meeting in June, 1954.
They have completed three terms
of missionary work.
Nelson has directed the Baptist
Since we have so many foreign
representatives among us, foreign
missions should not be foreign to
the Bethel campus. Gabriel Ofo-tokun,
Olakunle Kassim, Jerry
Jenfa and John Akinwale attended
various Baptist mission schools
in Nigeria before coming to the
States to attend Bethel. Ruby Fo-munyan
attended Saker Baptist
Fred Lund
Bethel College Graduate will
speak in Chapel Friday.
Roy Nelson
Theological College for the past
four years. The college is a train-ing
school for Filipino Christian
leaders in the central visays. His
responsibilities have included sup-ervision
of the college level aca-demic
program, regular class
teaching schedule, and manage-ment
of the school's experimental
College in Cameroon. Jim Liew
and Sriswood Vacharee ("Jeed")
were connected with Baptist mis-sions
in Thailand. Teresa Chung
of Hong Kong represents the Ev-angelical
Free Church mission in
her homeland. Isaias Cervantes
(Chi) comes from one of the Bap-tist
General Conference missions
in Mexico.
Besides these foreign students
there are on campus the sons and
daughters of foreign missionaries
as follows: from Assam, India:
Carol Johnson, Bette Larson and
Tim Larson; from Argentina:
Nancy Hill; from Brazil: Dan An-derson
and Mrs. Ruth Anderson;
from Japan: Marji Sorley, Lois
Bjork, Jeff and Paul Swanson,
Jim Youngquist, Jim Dillon, Sarah
Reasoner and Beth Young; from
the Philippines: Stu Chalmers and
Margaret Lindstedt; and from Af-rica:
Janice Mills, Ann and Rich-ard
Swanson.
farm project. Mrs. Nelson taught
health, English and music at the
school.
During their year of furlough
the Nelsons are living in Seattle,
Washington.
Rev. Glenn Ogren, missionary
to Brazil, South America, spent
the early years of his life in Chi-cago,
graduating from Bethel Col-lege
as well as Bethel Theological
Seminary. He also attended the
Evening School of the Moody Bible
Institute in Chicago. His wife stud-ied
at Northwestern College in
Minneapolis, and then graduated
from Hamline University School
of Nursing.
Rev. Ogren was ordained to the
ministry in August of 1960. On
November 29, 1960 Rev. and Mrs.
Ogren were appointed by t h e
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Baptist General Conference t o
serve as missionaries in Brazil.
They left the United States the
following March and spent one
year in Campinas, Brazil, learning
the Portuguese language in prep-
Mrs. Maynard Johnson presents the Gospel to the Ethio-pians
near the mission.
aration for their missionary ser-vice.
While on the field the Ogrens
have worked in the areas of Sao
Jose de Rio -Preto and Cardoso.
They were responsible for book-store
sales in towns and markets,
and spent time distributing Gos-pel
literature in various ways.
Ogren pastored a church for a
time, and then assisted in opening
a new work in Cardoso.
During their third term Ogren
taught in the seminary and Bible
institute at Sao Paulo. He was
also the director of a new course
of training. Perhaps the highlight
of the term was the writing of
programmed text books for a "stu-dy
center" type extension depart- under the direction of an instruc-ment
ministry. Study is at home, tor.
but once a week the students must The Ogrens are residing in St.
study at their designated center, Paul. Foreign students, missionary kids
abundant on Bethel's campus
Bethel grad Glenn Ogren teaches seminary in Brazil
18-19 year old vote bill defeated Page 6 the CLARION
by Cindy Rostollan
Nik Dag. What does that mean
to you?
I'll bet you imagine the inevi-table
bark of the dog, and going
to the P.O.'s to check the rules
for the 'game.' Then comes the
process of choosing the right
friend for the weekend, and all
the plans to do something unusual
and fun.
This turn-about weekend is what
we refer to as Nik Dag. But did
you know how Nik Dag came about
and how it was named as it was?
Years ago when Bethel was a
junior college, there was a time
when every November would have
a weekend called Sadie Hawkins.
Sadie Hawkins, during Lil Abner's
time was the big weekend for any
girl to go out and get her man!
It was the only time during the
year when it was "open season"
on any guy a girl wanted to try
and get for keeps.
I'm not sure if this is what
Bethel had in mind when it first
initiated Sadie Hawkins . . . may-be
it was. It could be that the
idea wasn't very successful, so
they decided to change the name,
and perhaps, the intention.
Dr. Dalton tells me the change
of the name came about because
of a very popular song that cir-culated
among the Bethel students
during 1949 and 1950. During this
time Bethel had a stronger Swe-dish
flavor and the students used
by Marjorie M. Rusche
"Rock music is the heartbeat
of hell and is being used by the
devil in these last days to gain
control over young lives."
"I speak as a divine representa-tive
of Almighty God. If you like
rock music, you're not right with
God."
Thus spoke Mr. Robert Larson
last Tues. night at a convocation
on rock music held in 106. Larson
is a professional speaker who
travels cross-country speaking to
high school assembles about rock.
He appeared at Bethel through the
invitation of President Carl Lund-quist.
He spoke twice, once to a bas-sically
faculty group and the sec-ond
time to a basically student
group. He was more high-pressur-ed
the second time, and at the end
of his presentation issued two
altar calls; one to step forward
apart with Jesus Christ and make
your heart right with God, the
other to renounce rock music as
incompatible with Christian tes-timony
and stand up and vow to
destroy those corrupting rock and
roll records.
Larson's basic points were: rock
music is an inherently evil of
music and an instrument of the
devil, rock music is affiliated with
drug, leftist, Marxist, and anarch-ist
elements in this country, you
don't hear rock music, you feel
it, (i.e. rock music is not head
music but visceral music), Jesus
Christ didn't stoop to the level
of his contemporaries in present-ing
his message, rock music em-phasizes
the humanity of Christ
when it does speak about Christ
and tries to bring him down to
the level of man, mass media has
replaced the traditional institu-tions
of society, rock music is the
major form of communication
among youth of America, rock is
forming the philosophies of young
people today and is serving as a
cultural catalyst.
Larson's presentation was ex-tremely
emotional, done in a re-vival
meeting style. He talked
extremely fast in a high-pitched
voice, set himself up as having
Friday, November 14, 1969
to sing a Swedish cong called
"Nikolina." It was then sung in
both Swedish and English, and was
such a favorite that students
changed Sadie Hawkins to the
more appropriate Nikolina's Dag
(day in Swedish). Through various
abbreviations, the name finally
got shortened to the Nik Dag that
we know today.
Trying to get the words or a
translation of the song "Nikolina,"
was a lot harder than I first antici-pated.
In talking to several Swe-dish
people around, Eric Borgeson
agreed to help me with a loose
translation.
After reading what "Nikolina"
is really about, you will find it
hard to believe that this is actually
what Nik Dag is named after.
I believe it sounds better in
Swedish, and loses much in the
translation.
To be in love, it is an awful pain,
Who ever tried it, will not dis-agree.
I was so much in love with Niko-lina,
And Nikolina, just as much in
love with me.
The song goes for seven more
verses, so I'll explain how the
rest of it reads.
The young man has just asked
Nikolina's papa for her hand, and
he just chased the young man out.
The young man then goes home
divine authority, and misrepre-sented
what he was attacking.
The music was extremely loud
and painful to listen to. Although
Larson claimed that the decible-level
was lower than that of a
Jimmy Hendrix concert, sentiment
was expressed in the audience
that they had never heard music
performed that loud at a public
concert or when they privately
played their stereo. Loundness is
a function not only of decible lev-el,
but the size and acoustics of
the room and whether the concert
is inside or outside.
It was also expressed that Lar-son
was performing the rock mu-sic
technically sloppy and was de-liberately
using poor examples of
rock. "I'm insulted. I have a better
knowledge of rock music than
that. He has his guitar turned up
extra loud to make us not like it
continued from page 2
tice Department, but that MOBE
was going to keep trying. "If we
come out and say we don't have
a chance to get a permit, then
what kind of chance do we have?"
Young said MOBE is thinking
in terms of alternatives for Sat-urday's
march, but the Justice De-partment
is pinning them in every
way possible.
Kleindienst would restrict dem-onstrators
to the mall area be-tween
the Capitol and Washington
Monument. "Mr. Kleindienst would
reduce peace members to second-class
citizens," Young challenged.
"The Justice Department is car-rying
out a policy of prohibiting
dissent against the war to fit in
with White House policy . . . You
can be sure the President is fully
aware of what is going on."
Already MOBE has more signi-ficant
modifications in its plans,
hoping to come to an agreement
with government officials. It has
offered an alternate route down
Constitution Avenue and has of-fered
to parade behind the White
House instead of in front of it. It
also has offered to allow only 40-
and writes Nikolina a letter, ask-ing
her to meet him in the grove
Saturday night. On Saturday night,
the young man goes to the grove,
and who should be waiting for
him but Nikolina's father. Niko-lina's
father chases the young man
around the grove with a club un-til
he runs to his home. That
night, the young man writes Niko-lina
again, telling her that he is
bidding her good-bye for tomor-row
he is going to find the nearest
lake and drown himself. Quickly
Nikolina answers, telling him,
"Don't be a coward and kill your-self.
You must wait until my
papa dies and then we will marry."
The song ends with the young
man saying, "Now I wait for the
old man to die, and when he
does, we will place that club on
his grave as a memory of a long
time ago."
No longer is this weekend to
search for your "intended,' but
who's to say you won't find him
or her in it? Today, the event is
more of a social time for any or
all girls to open their pocket-books
and either pay back or get
even with some special guy or
just get to know any new friend.
Have a good time during Nik
Dag and thank your lucky stars
for what the weekend could mean
and doesn't. There is a lot to be
said for some of the changes
Bethel has made in the past thirty
years!!
—that bad music he plays is pure
propaganda," expressed Chris Nel-son,
"That's not even rock, that's
The question-and-answer session
was quite animated. Larson stated
he wanted specific, logical ques-tions
dealing with rock and roll,
not expressions of opinion in op-position
to his. (Larson prefaced
his whole presentation by stating
that since he was the representa-tive
of Jesus Christ he demanded
respect, that the audience could
disagree, but did not have the pre-rogative
in any way to disrupt
or hinder anything he said. At
one point in the program he said,
"O.K., whoever it is you can stop
your snapping and leave right
now." The noise was a disruptive
radiator.) However, few people got
to finish their questions without
continued on page 7
70,000 persons to parade along
Pennsylvania Avenue instead o f
the entire mass.
But the Justice Department has
yet to budge, other than to grant
a permit for the two-day single
file march against death Nov. 13
and 14.
Its logic is ridiculous, as Young
pointed out in a press conference.
The government says people are
coming from Boston, and you know
what's going on at M.I.T. People
are coming from Madison, Wiscon-sin,
and you know what some
students did there last year. There-fore,
the march won't be peace-ful.
The government has decided
from logic that should make ev-ery
high school logic teacher in
the country shudder.
And maybe it won't be peaceful.
If the Justice Department does
not grant a permit for the march
which has been promoted f o r
months, and hundreds of thou-sands
of persons do come to pro-test
the war thinking they will be
marching down Pennsylvania Ave.,
it may take an incredible amount
of "minimum force" to stop them.
But it will be the Justice Depart-ment
who brings the war home.
TRENTON, N.J. (CPS) — Those
students who still believe change
can be accomplished working
through the political system have
suffered a set-back in the Nov. 5
elections, as referendums to lower
the voting age in two states failed.
Voters in Ohio and New Jersey
rejected their opportunities to
grant voting rights to 19 and 18-
year olds respectively in referen-dums
considered crucial tests to
indicate the probability of other
states doing the same. Had the
referendums passed, the possibili-ty
for passage of a federal Consti-amendment
on the issue also
would have been greatly improv-ed,
Youth Franchise Coalition
spokesmen had predicted.
The double failure by over 300,-
000 votes (18 per cent) in New
Jersey and about 50,000 votes (1
per cent) in Ohio seemingly would
discourage the students who cam-paigned
and canvessed for months
to win the vote. But in traditional
good-loser political style, organi-zers
of the campaigns refuse to
admit discouragement.
David DuPell, chairman of the
Voting Age Coalition (VAC) in
New Jersey, released a statement
to the press which vowed to con-tine
the fight. As a staff member
at the Trenton headquarters ex-plained,
"The resolve is there. It's
just a matter of time until we
can convince the voters of our
cause. We're not pessimistic."
But there is plenty to be pessi-mistic
about. The earliest possible
time the issue can again be put be-fore
the voters is in two years,
and then only if the state legisla-ture
is convinced voter sentiment
has changed sufficiently to war-rant
passing another referendum
bill.
The earliest possible date for
18-year old voting to go into ef-fect
in New Jersey is 1972, and
The week end of November 21
marks the first time this year
that IC-3 will be meeting to work
cooperatively on a particular is-sue
of common concern to all ed-ucational
institutions of higher
learning. The College of St. Cath-erine's
will be the center of the
activities of a non-conference on
educational reform.
Beginning on Friday night and
continuing through Sunday after-noon,
the non-conference will deal
with all the implications of edu-cational
reform. Workshops deal-ing
with student power, student-teacher
evaluation, grades and
graduation requirements„ and stu-dents
and social change are a few
of the areas of discussion.
Students, faculty and adminis-trators
of the seven Twin City
colleges will be participating in
an effort to bring educational re-forms
to the colleges in the Twin
Cities. Interested students, facul-ty
and administrators should con-tact
IC-3 representatives Denny
Olson and Arne Bergstrom for fur-ther
information on the non-con-then
only if 10 per cent of the
voters can be convinced to change
their minds in another referen-dum.
VAC is encouraged by Republi-can
Governor-elect William T. Ca-hill's
support for lowering the vot-ing
age, and the organization ex-pects
Cahill to campaign heavily
for it.
"Women's voting, Social Securi-ty,
and Medicare didn't pass the
first time around either, but peo-ple
didn't give up on them," a
VAC spokesman said, indicating
his continuing faith in the ballot.
"We in New Jersey don't give up
easily either."
In Ohio, where polls had pre-dicted
the 19-year old vote would
pass by several per cent, the story
is similar to that in New Jersey.
"We're quite well pleased with
the results," said Vote 19 Director
Clark Wideman. "It's just a mat-ter
of time until it passes.
"You see, nobody who voted for
it this time is going to vote against
it next time. We can only go up,
and we're just about one per cent
away from victory. A lot of our
supporters didn't expect we'd come
so close this time."
Wideman noted that a great deal
of campus unrest is the only thing
that could reduce this year's level
of voter support in future at-tempts.
The issue could be placed on
Ohio's May primary if a petition
drive, which is being considered,
is successful. The alternative to a
massive petition drive is return-ing
to the state legislature and
convincing it to place the issue
on a future ballot, Wideman said.
We're going to study the alter-natives
for awhile," he said.
Eleven other states will place
the voting age before their voters
next year, but prospects for low-ering
the age have not been im-proved
by this month's results.
ference. "The non-conference is
open to everyone. Since it is the
`average' students who will be af-fected
by any reform, his voice in
bringing about these reforms is
most important," Bergstrom stated.
Sharing importance with the
study of educational reform will be
the creation of an environment in
order for conference representa-tives
to work together more ef-fctively.
Since interpersonal rela-tionships
are usually missing at
conferences and this omossion of-ten
leads to a failure of the con-ference
to take action when it is
over, group dynamics will be an
important part of the entire non-conference.
The educational reform non-conference
is the first major step
in IC-3's resource center program.
A long term educational reform
non-committee will be formed as
a result of the non-conference to
provide a resource center in the
area of educational reform. Par-ticipating
colleges will be given
direction for their own programs
of educational reforms.
Nik Dag traditionally turnabout time
Convocation on rock polarizes views
MOBE wants a peaceful march
IC-3 holds workshop
Sedeekot Vorea efoetc
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
igook Rebirth
The Twilight of Western Thought
by Chuck Myrbo
From the Daily Calendar, November 5, 1969:
Bethel Community
In the interests of clarification of policies that have been
taken as a consensus of the campus community, and that now
need to be explicitly stated and critically examined, the Student
Services Office publicizes as its current operating princple:
". . . that recreational dancing is viewed as detrimental
to the psychic and spiritual health of the community and is
forbidden as a form of campus and/or Bethel-directed activity.
Student Services Office
From a book by Piet Hein called Grooks:
CIRCUMSCRIPTURE
As Pastor X steps out of bed
he slips a neat diguise on:
that halo round his priestly head
is really his horizon.
Given that hard rock has a potentially dangerous power
over the biology and psychology of American youth. Given
that this power is often used dangerously. That it is nowhere
near as dangerous as Mr. Larson claims it is I am prepared to
argue, but that would take the kind of time (and opportunity
to choose appropriate facts) that Larson had, so I won't do it
here. Find me on campus sometime and I'll talk to you —
unemotionally.
But one thing I will say now. Larson's main point was
that the effect of rock music, because it is unconscious and
because it is above our poor power to resist, is evil and must
be fought. Agreed. He stretched his case completely beyond
the limits of logic and his evidence, but he was right that many
rock musicians use their power dishonestly and immorally.
So you can talk about the psychological and biological
effects of hard rock. But you can also talk about the psychologi-cal
and biological effects of a persuasive speaker, about the
emotive power of words, about the overpowering effect of a
barrage of well-chosen illustrations, and the even greater
power that the evocation of the Holy Spirit as the guiding
force in a meeting can have over the emotions of an audience.
Ten-meeting evangelists since Jonathan Edwards have
used their persuasive power to pull tears from audiences and
to pull audiences to altars. They have used that power dishon-estly
and immorally. Adolph Hitler used the same methods
to make a whole country watch while he killed six million
Jews. The means were the same — and the fact that the ends
were different in no way justified those means.
The music Larson played was, neither in volume nor in
quality, representative of rock. His logic was faulty. And he
used the same type of power to sway an audience that he
condemned in rock musicians. So I still say, with Chuck Berry
(grandfather of rock), that "it's gotta be rock 'n' roll music."
And I'll still keep the Beatles at the top of my column.
Macalester presents Nonce/it'
by Ronald L. Roper
My only apology for reviewing
just books for which I have care-fully
searched, spent hard-earned
cash and given my highest recom-mendation,
is that life is short.
I seek to value those things which
are valuable for the Kingship of
Christ in my own sphere of spec-ialization
as a member of the Body
of Christ. Will you join me?
In The Twilight of Western
Thought — Herman Dooyeweerd,
1960. $2.50, paperback. (Craig
Press, Order Department, Box 13,
Nutley, New Jersey, 07110) Avail-able
at BBS and the Library.
This book remains one of the
only two introductions (in Eng-lish)
to the tremendously import-ant
school of Christian Philosophy
which has developed over the past
fifty years among several of the
faculty of the Free University of
Amsterdam in the Netherlands,
and elsewhere.
The average reader may find the
reading difficult; the Christian
thinker will discover a bombshell
here. Not since the Protestant
Reformation (what other?), has the
Word of God blazed such signi-ficant
trails into prevailing and
uncritically accepted premises of
Non-Christian thought as at the
hands of this Christian Philosophy
(called, for lack of an exact trans-lation,
The Philosophy of the Law-
Idea).
To my own queries, over the
past year-and-a-half, as to why
this philosophy is little known
among many Evangelicals the fol-lowing
considerations slowly came
to light.
1) The philosophy is entirely
too Christian. For those of you
who appreciate compound adjec-tives,
this movement could be
tagged "Un-American," Anti- Com-munist
(in the same breath!), an-ti-
rationalistic, anti - existentialis-tic,
non-liberal, non-conservative,
(pant, pant) and maybe even anti-disestablishmentarian.
In short:
unprecedented. For those who
would, if children of God, seek
earthly solace in any philosophy
not at the start informed by the
Scriptures, they could find n o
comfort here. For those who pre-sume
that personal salvation suf-fices
to justify prefixing all their
works "Christian," the continual
succession of double-takes encoun-tered
in this book may well in-timidate
them.
2) The philosophy is entirely
too difficult. Here we have an
indictment to challenge the hardy
intellectual Believer! Americans,
in general, have not been edu-cated
to think deeply and widely.
Amazingly, the source of this ten-dency
stems itself from a philos-ophy
(for the uninitiated). And to
make matters worse, Fundamental
Evangelical American Christians,
in large, have gone further to su-perimpose
an even more restric-tive
philosophy upon the first
one. Oh, woe is we! By withdraw-ing
from hard mental tasks, tacit-ly
affirming the credo "If it's dif-ficult
it's dangerous," we finally
capitulate a truly Christian poten-tiality
and uncritically assume the
"obvious" truth of an alien
thought form or way of life which
has squirmed into the gaping cre-vices
of our emptied minds.
3) The philosophy is entirely
too recent. That may seem anoma-lous,
considering the nearly half-century
of its development. The
problem lies in translation. Barely
more than ten years ago, the final
volume of Herman Dooyeweerd's
A New Critique of Theoretical
Thought was translated from
Dutch into English. So who knows
Dutch?!
This four-volume work (just pur-chased
by the Bethel College Li-brary
at the end of last school
year is much too erudite for the
average reader; it's even rather
scary to look at. Certainly no one
would read it in his spare time.
Actually, it i s providential
that such a powerful tool should
arise from the Dutch language.
It varies enough from German to
avoid the main thrusts of such
destructive tendencies as Barth-ianism,
neo-orthodoxy in general,
and the great variety of assorted
heresies, the direct linguistic ex-posure
to which could have been
disintegrating to fruitful expansion
of a Sciptural concensus.
On the other hand, sufficient
variance from the English lan-guage
facilitated isolation from
British logical positivism and lin-guistic
analysis. And yet, the ready
availability of European thought
generated beneficial dialogue, the
absence of which could have im-mediately
marked this Christian
Philosophy for either immediate
assault or passive disinterest.
The subsequent need for "popu-larizations"
such as In The Twi-light
of Western Thought will be
obvious. Strictly speaking, howev-er,
this book could better be
termed the "introduction to the
popularization." (The populariza-tion
being An Introduction To
Christian Philosophy by J. M. Spier
—Craig Press—$3. 175, paperback)
The Twilight commences with an
historical and critical analysis of
continued from page 6
being attacked, interrupted, or
otherwise disrupted by Larson.
Mr. Youngblood, a psychology
instructor, stated during the ques-tion-
and-answer session that he
got a spiritual message from some
rock music, and why does Larson
categorically reject the whole
field? Larson replied that the
very form of rock-and-roll was
inherently bad since the beat and
sound of rock rejects restraint
and promotes rebelliousness.
When you are dealing with rock
it is fallicious to say that the
music is bad because you consider
the composer's life immoral, Bruce
Lawson, seminary student said.
For if you systematically followed
this principle you'd have to de-stroy
large amounts of literature,
art, and classical music.
Paul Mauger, psychology profes-sor,
followed through on this ques-tion
and raised the dilemma of
Van Gogh cutting off his ear
and sending it to a prostitute.
Does this invalidate his work?
Does the homosexuality of Michal-angelo
make his statue of David
immoral and contaminating t o
Christian eyes?
Larson responded that with the
advent of mass communication,
we had to consider the total en-tity
within the art work itself.
Before the advent of mass media,
the personal lives of the perform-ers
or artists weren't so publiciz-ed.
(i.e. the Beattles)
However, this is an invalid ar-gument,
for even if you accept the
position that a work of art is im-moral
because of the association
it has or because of the immorality
of the artists, it does not matter
the humanistic dogma of the auto-nomy
or "Reason" (which probably
every reader of this article—even
"non-readers . . . " — would likely
affirm, if he knew what it encom-passed.
Two chapters are thus ex-pended,
with the conclusion that
this doctrine arose from a religious
concensus which was in no way
informed by the Scriptures: the
Word of God.
The next chapters are concerned
with historicism ��� a prevailing
thought-form in many circles
which trickles all through our
culture. The foundations for a
truly Christian philosophy of his-tory
and culture can be perceived
at the root of this radical and un-usual
critique of historistic trends.
The following three chapters on
"Philosophy and Theology" must
be unreservedly recommended to
all students of these subjects.
These chapters, to my mind, were
worth the price of the book. Every
tentative Christianity major would
be wise to investigate these words
with a prayerful heart.
The final chapter, "What Is
Man," is a brief and admittedly
prolegommenal anthropology o f
man (we would probably use the
phrase, "expanded personality the-ory").
Any psychology major would
be somewhat unsettled in his chair
after reading it.
To sum up, In The Twilight of
Western Thought, is dynamite in
the right hands. You left hands
keep away! But seriously, I wish
that every sincere student and
professor at Bethel College could
read this little book.
how many people are aware of the
artist's personal life; the salient
fact is that the persons themselves
and thus the art work are immoral.
(I doubt that Larson would contend
that the same immoral object is
moral for some people who are
ignorant and immoral for people
who know about the immorality of
the artist.)
Larson was asked for names
of composers and compositions
of what he considered was good
contemporary music. He conceded
that there was "good" contempor-ary
music around but stood mute
while trying to come up with
some specific answers. Someone
in the audience suggested Bern-stein's
West Side Story. Larson
concurred. Another audience voice
popped up, "oh no, how can you
say that? West Side Story talks
about anarchy and rebellion in the
streets?"
Larson felt that if the lyrical
content was not anti-Biblical, that
would be good music, Arne Berg-strom
pointed out an example of a
contemporary rock song that was
pro-Biblical and pro-Jesus. Lar-son
then reverted back to his
position that all rock music was
inherently evil and complete ab-stinence
from rock was necessary
for a spiritually pure life.
Larson, however, in response to
a question by Mark Steward,
doubted that every one of the
songs in the hymnal was divinely
inspired by God.
If we carry Larson's reasoning
out, I certainly hope all the com-posers
of hymns led morally pure
lives, otherwise we're being cor-rupted
by singing hymns—irre-gardless
of the lyrical content or
message of the hymns.
Friday, November 14, 1969
Adapted from the November 9
issue of Minneapolis Tribune
Macalester is having a Noncert.
Monte Nason, a fifth-year senior
music major at the college is or-ganizing
the noncert as well as
serving as concertmaster.
The noncert is not a joke, it is
an attempt to integrate serious and
contemporary music. The Walker
Art Center and the Schubert Club
are co-sponsoring the event.
The Noncert at Macalester will
happen in the Janet Wallace Fine
Arts Center at 8:30, Tues., Nov.
18.
Without much coaxing, Nason
talked one day last week about
some of the numbers (non-num-bers?)
that will be presented at
the noncert.
" 'Prelude' will probably be
Survey co
continued from page 3
better things than what is heard
on the radio and TV. They assume
we will leave Bethel with broader
educations than those we came
with. If this is to be so, we must
study, and hopefully learn to ap-preciate,
and somehow help others
to learn to appreciate more intel-lectual
music.
There is no reason, then why
highly aleatoric," said Nason pro-foundly.
"We will have some old
records playing on an old Vic-trola
and someone eating apples."
" 'Hatred From My Heart
Springs a Hundred Fold' is an aria
from a Red Chinese Opera called
`The Red Lantern.' As far as I
know, this will be the United
States premiere for the song."
"In 'Events for Chorus, Orches-tra
and Beachball,' the two con-ductors
throw the beach ball a-round,
and whoever catches it has
to make some music or some kind
of a sound."
"Pictures of an Exhibitionist'
is still shaping up. I can only say
for sure that it involves whistles,
highway signs, pencil sharpeners
and some other more traditional
instruments."
mpleted
Bethel's music department need
drastically change. We do repre-sent
the school well, we do influ-ence
many to come here, and we
represent a higher education mu-sically,
even as other departments
represent higher education in their
respective fields, and no one feels
they should change their curri-culums
to a more "pop" level.
Jo Ellen Worrell '70
the CLARION
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Is rock inherently evil?
Consult God's 'disciple'
Page 8
the CLARION
Friday, November 14, 1969
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Tim Larson maneuvers around Hamline defender as Lee Granlund and Dan Anderson
move in for support. Though out-played, Ham line won the game 1-0.
Hamline beats soccer team
in heartbreaker of the season
The last game of the season
became the heartbreaker of the
season. The Hamline Pipers, who
have had a season they would just
as soon forget about, tipped the
Royals 1-0. It was Bethel's turn
to be the team that did everything
but score.
Playing before a large group
of fans, including the president,
the Royals put out a supreme ef-fort
and showed teamwork and
skill that made Hamline look like
the underdog they were. But scor-ing
chances were choked off by
the small field, and a tough defen-sive
alignment by the opposition.
With four fullbacks in the sec-ond
half, Bethel was only able
to shoot at a well of legs. Each
bar on the goal was hit two or
three times including the upright
which was bent down half a foot.
Hamline got its break in the
second half when they scored on
a rebound. It came after a dis-puted
play in which, according to
rules, the referee was wrong. He
disagreed with the linesman on
an out-of-bounds play and kicked
the linesman out of the game.
To some players and observers, it
appeared that Bethel was playing
against twelve men instead o f
eleven.
Throughout the rest of the game,
Bethel kept the pressure on and
the ball was constantly kicked
around the Hamline goal. But nev-er
in. Goalie Jon Nordstrom was
taken out of action for the last
thirty minutes after a collision
with a Hamline player. Jerry Jen-fa
finished the game in goal.
If the old adage that "it's not
whether you win or lose, but how
you play the game" is true, Bethel
won. But for the record, the Roy-als
lost and ended with a 4-4-2
season.
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The Column
by Tim Weko
Well, Tuesday night will be well remembered at Bethel College
because of a person called Robert Larson. Larson is a former rock
and roll artist (I hope I don't offend any of the faculty when I used the
term "artist") who now goes to different high schools and colleges
and knocks rock, and he had an arsenal of material against rock music.
No one can deny that he had some very good points, although I'm quite
sure there are some equally good points on the other side of the fence.
Anyway, his point was well taken. Even though after his opening
remarks he had about the lowest ethos of any speaker I have ever heard,
he did convince me of one thing - that if you would rather have
rock music than God then something is wrong.
However, if you would rather have classical music than God or
long hair than God or short hair than God or wrestling than God or
basketball than God or food than God or a 4.0 gpa than God, then you
have a God of your own already, but it's the wrong God.
Every thing should have its own place. And for those of you who
didn't get to hear Mr. Larson speak and play (he played a "mean"
guitar) you really missed out, because I'm sure he is the only speaker
in Bethel College history to ever get put down by radiator noises.
*
Last week President Lundquist wrote a letter to the editor, and
I got a kick out of it even though I know he was serious. I would like
to quote his fifth point and then offer a brief paraphrase:
5. "Being sensitive to the feelings of the people who love Bethel
and who by their personal sacrifice make possible the continuation of
our school."
In other words, they know which side their bread is buttered on.
Honest, President Lundquist, I only meant it humorously. Anyway,
I am going to offer my last words (I think) on the music department
controversy. I don't have anything against that department personally.
In fact, I rather enjoy their performances - the band concert was
excellent last weekend - except when their activities pre-empt other
department activities (I guess I'm a dyed-in-the-wool jock at heart).
I merely want the music department to see its proper place (I
don't want this to become Bethel College of the musical arts) just
as the athletic department or the drama department or the art de-partment
or the history department should recognize its place. Some
people should remember that no part is bigger than the whole. We
don't want to lower the status of the music department, but we should
try to raise the other departments in the school up to an equal level.
Of course we know that all the departments here at Bethel are equal,
it's just that some are more equal than others.
* * *
After reading what I've just written, I think I'll stick to writing
about sports. It's a lot safer.
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The Bethel women have now
invaded the volleyball court. With
enough players for two full teams
and coaching by Miss Brownlee
the team has made a creditable
showing in their first three games.
St. Cloud was the team's first
opponent. The B team played an
exceptional game and took the
two out of three games necessary
for a win. The St. Cloud A team
however, trounced Bethel's team
15-5, 15-6.
In their next game Bethel play-ed
St. Catherine's and pulled off
a double victory. The B team
scores were 15-8, 15-3; the A team
in a close contest won 15-6, 13-15,
15-12.
Bethel's first home game was
against the University of Minneso-ta
and in spite of the home-fans'
cheering, Bethel was defeated in
both matches. The B team went
down 10-7, 15-3 and the A team
15-13, 15-5.
Miss Brownlee says that the
team, in playing St. Cloud and the
The Royals took to the gridiron
for the final time this season,
last Saturday, and were blasted by
Hamline 50-0.
Bethel just wasn't able to con-
University, have already faced
their toughest opponents, so they
are looking ahead to some victor-ies.
Monday, on the home court at
6:45, Bethel plays Carleton Col-lege,
and Wednesday, again at
home, Bethel faces Lakewood Ju-nior
College.
tain the Piper offensive attack,
as Hamline pounded out 435 net
rushing yards. Senior quarterback
Larry Hegerle directed Hamline
to a 29-0 halftime lead. He scored
their first touchdown on an 11
yard run, and threw touchdown
passes to Terry Larson and Jed
Knuttila in the second period.
Rick Anderson scored the other
second quarter touchdown.
In the second half the Pipers
continued to roll up yardage and
scored three more times. Warren
Dufresne, Bert Heaton, and Rick
Anderson each hit the end zone on
short runs.
Although the score doesn't show
it, at times Bethel was able to
move the ball well. The Royals
chalked up 16 first downs in com-parison
to Hamline's 17, but they
couldn't come up with the needed
yardage in crucial situations. The
Royals most effective weapon was
the pass, with Murray Sitte hitting
on 21 of 36 tosses for 185 yards.
John Peterson and Dave Pound
each made several fine receptions.
Playing in their final game for
Bethel were seniors: Cal Harfst,
Gary Hasselblad, Murray Sitte,
Dave Pound, Barry Anderson, Pete
Roemer, Bob Olsen, Tom Swanson
and Fred Swedberg.
November 8, 1969
Off Campus 0 vs 2nd Old 0
Falcon 7 vs 1st Floor 6
Faculty 1 vs 3rd Old 0
New Dorm 7 vs Pit 6
3rd New 20 vs 2nd New 6
Standings
1. Falcon 8 0
2. 2nd New 6 2
3. Off Campus 5 3
4. Faculty 5 3
5. Third New 4 4
6. First Floor 3 5
7. New Dorm 3 5
8. Pit 3 5
9. Second Old 2 6
10. 3rd Old 0 8
Nov. 15
9:30
Faculty vs 2nd New
New Dorm vs 3rd New
10:30
Falcon vs Pit
2nd Old vs 3rd Old
Off Campus vs First Floor
Volleyball Standings
1st place
"Golden Agers" (faculty)
3rd Hagstrom
2nd Hagstrom
2nd place
1st Old Bodien
3rd New Bodien
2nd Old Bodien
3rd place
New Dorm
2nd New Bodien
Iraho Manor
4th place
1st New Bodien
3rd Old Bodien
Falcon
Center
Pascal
5th place
1st Hagstrom
Eagle
In tennis in the round-robin
doubles tournament, Miss Starr
and Sarah Reasoner have defeated
all their opponents, and have the
first place slot.
In second with a 1-1 record are
Miss Brownlee and Carla Ask.
Sandy Sanford and Mrs. Wilson
occupy the third place slot with
0-1, and Janet Olson and Eva
Heinmets are in fourth with a
0-2 record.
In the double-elimination singles
tourney, Melissa McCool and Sarah
Reasoner still have no losses and
are playing in the finals. Connie
Olson has one loss so she is still
in the tournament, and is play-ing
in the consolation bracket.
November 4
Bowling Standings
New Dorm I 13
New Dorm II 11
First Floor I 11
Falcon I
103/4
Off Campus 81/2
First Floor II
61/2
Second New 31/2
Second Old
Third New 13/4
New Dorm III 0
High Games
1. Don White 223
2. Dave Nethercott 221
3. Bob Brodin 207
4. Kent Erickson 193
5. Bob Brodin 186
High Series
1. Don White 561
2. Kent Erickson 521
3. Bob Brodin 521
Most Improved
1. Bob Brodin 103 pins
2. Rick Peterson 89
November 11
High Games
1. Carl Rippie 215
2. Jim Delich 199
3. Larry Day 190
4. Dale Finch 186
High Series
1. Jim Delich 522
2. Carl Rippie 513
3. Dan Brown 489
Most Improved
1. Jim Delich 92 pins
2. Carl Rippie 80
Pipers blast the Royals
as football season ends